Ethnic Tajik life through the lens of a solider (Part III)

Updated: 2014-12-26 07:49

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Ethnic Tajik life through the lens of a solider (Part III)

Gulaxiami, a 4-year-old Tajik girl, receives a gift from her visiting uncle, who lives 140 km away, Nov 24, 2014. Gulaxiami means beautiful flower in the Tajik language. [Photo by Wang Lie/chinadaily.com.cn]

According to the Tajik traditions, a man is not allowed to enter a house if the family's male host is not at home.

Phtotographer Wang Lie said he had to wait for Arimaner, a Tajik herdsman, to come back from the mountains before he could enter the traditional Tajik house to meet his wife and daughters.