The Month-long Face Painting Festival Starts In Qiubei County

QIUBEI COUNTY, CHINA - JULY 18: People of Yi ethnic group who are daubed rice ash pose during the Face Painting Festival in Puzhehei Resort of Qiubei County on July 18, 2016 in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province of China. The Face Painting Festival also known as Hualian Festival, is the grandest traditional festival of the Sani People (a branch of the Yi ethnic group) living around Puzhehei Resort of Qiubei County to exorcise and remove the evil. During the festival, villagers especially the youth will paint the faces black each other with collies or other materials. Now the painting face has become a way for the young to express love, the blacker the faces are painted, the deeper the love is believed to be. (Photo by VCG/Getty Images)