"I am proud my home village has preserved its traditional style," said Tashi Yangjen, the only deputy to the 12th National People's Congress from the Lhoba ethnic group.

Luoba is one of the smallest ethnic minorities in China.

Tashi Yangjen, 36, grew up in a mountainous Lhoba village in Shannan prefecture in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, though the prefecture was officially reclassified as a city in 2016.