'Straw Beauty' at Rice Cultural Festival Explore in China - People and Culture

The third Shenyang Rice Cultural Festival and the fifth Sibo Minority Ethnicity Cultural Festival (Sibo, an ethnic minority of China) opens in Shenyang of Liaoning Province.The highlight of this festival event is blessing and good fortune, which is also the essence of rice culture.

Performers, dressed up in straw skirts, celebrate this auspicious culture festival event at Xinglongtai Sibo Town, Shenbei New District in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province on Aug. 31, 2015. 

The festival is themed with "Happiness and Abundance", which is also what straw in Chinese represents. [Photos: Chinanews.com]