Across China, Spring Festival sees young married couples working away from their hometowns return to their families to much excitement. In the culture of the Miao minority, they do it with even more fanfare. /Xinhua Photo

More than 150 Miao women and their husbands formed a traditional procession into Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on Tuesday. They wore ceremonial dress and carried food, wine and gifts. /Xinhua Photo

In Miao culture, married women earn the title “aunt” and are afforded more respect. /Xinhua Photo