Nandan County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is famous for the Yao ethnic group's traditional clothing. Its chicken patterns in clothing for men and women are a testament to the place chickens hold in Yao people's spiritual beliefs.

In Nandan County, Yao men's white trousers are embroidered with five red patterns. It is said that these are the blood fingerprints left by the King of Yao when he fought with other ethnic groups. Yao women all wear a blue, knee-high pleated skirt for all seasons. The surface of the skirts is dyed by tree sap in three groups of circular patterns with the edges bordered by non-waving silk slices. Yao women's coats and skirts adopt a unique dyeing technology that uses tree sap.
 

Hezhou City in Guangxi is a major settlement of Yao people. The patterns and ornaments of Yao clothing in Hezhou display distinctive features of the group's culture and follow the development track of history. For instance, the amount of animal and plant patterns reflects the Yao transition from a fishing and hunting economy to agricultural economy. Numerous figure patterns embody Yao's primitive religious worship and Buddhist and Taoist culture's profound influence on Yao minority. Besides, people in Hezhou can easily judge a Yao person's age, marital status, loves and social status by Yao clothing.