The Yao are a minority group in five south China provinces as well as Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The provinces include Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jiangxi. The population of the Yao is about 2.6 million. The Yao live in beautiful mountain valleys that are very humid. They are densely covered with many trees consisting of pines, firs, Chinese firs, Chinese cinnamons, tung oil trees and bamboo and tea bushes. The Yao have inhabited areas they are abundant in many more things besides trees. They have bamboo shoots, sweet grass, mushrooms, honey, dye yam and jute and medical herb. Along with all of these natural resources the have forests full of boars, bears, monkeys, muntjacs and masked civets.
The Yao homes are typically rectangular being made of wood or bamboo. Other materials the Yao's may use to build there homes would be logs and thatched grass roofs. Few of the Yao have mud walls tiled roofs. Their homes usually consist of three rooms the family room (sitting room) being in the middle and the bedrooms on both sides. The bedrooms will also have a stove in each corner. Another way a Yao home may be is two stores with the upper story being the living area and the lower story being stables where tools and things are kept. Some families have a bathroom built next to their home and bath in the evening as an everyday must no matter how cold it is outside.
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