Men of Yao minority who live in Guangxi wear white trousers. These are not plain white trousers, but decorated with five or seven strips of red cloth on the knee part and some are embroidered with red threads and decorated with small patterns of all different shapes. This practice of sewing red cloth on white trousers also came from a very touching ancestor worship story. Long long ago, their ancestors lived and worked in peace and contentment, but suddenly there came a demon who asked people to present their food supplies and girls and also take orders from him. A handsome and brave young guy in the tribe led his tribe people to fight with the demon. He took the lead in chasing the demon into a mountain. When people arrived, they found the young guy had already perished together with the demon. In his hands, he still seized the demon's hair. Bloodstain scratched by the demon's big paws was left on his clothes. To recall this hero who drove away the evil demon for the people, Yao people began to embroider or sew red vertical stripes pattern on their white trousers to signify the blood mark scratched by the demon, to commemorate the ancestor and to spirit up themselves.
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