Feng Wanqing (C), a primary school teacher, teaches children the language of Miao ethnic group at the Xiaomaopoying Village of Xuan`en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China`s Hubei Province, March 15, 2011. Every day Feng gives one lesson to students on the language of Miao ethnic group. A total of 407 people of Miao ethnic group, or 84 percent of the village population, live in the Xiaomaopoying Village, which is located in a valley deep in the mountains. Local government has set the village as the province`s only reservation area for Miao`s language. However, with more and more young people leaving their hometown to work in cities, Miao`s language is used by only less than one hundred villagers nowadays. Miao`s song and language now is seldom heard in the valley. (Xinhua/Song Wen)

\A woman of Miao ethnic group cooks at home at the Xiaomaopoying Village of Xuan`en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China`s Hubei Province, Nov. 27, 2011. The young man plans to sell the trees and then leave the village for cities to start working out. A total of 407 people of Miao ethnic group, or 84 percent of the village population, live in the Xiaomaopoying Village, which is located in a valley deep in the mountains. Local government has set the village as the province`s only reservation area for Miao`s language. However, with more and more young people leaving their hometown to work in cities, Miao`s language is used by only less than one hundred villagers nowadays. Miao`s song and language now is seldom heard in the valley. (Xinhua/Song Wen)

Feng Wanqing (R), a primary school teacher, takes children to school at the Xiaomaopoying Village of Xuan`en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China`s Hubei Province, March 15, 2011. Every day Feng gives one lesson to students on the language of Miao ethnic group. A total of 407 people of Miao ethnic group, or 84 percent of the village population, live in the Xiaomaopoying Village, which is located in a valley deep in the mountains. Local government has set the village as the province`s only reservation area for Miao`s language. However, with more and more young people leaving their hometown to work in cities, Miao`s language is used by only less than one hundred villagers nowadays. Miao`s song and language now is seldom heard in the valley. (Xinhua/Song Wen)