Local folk artists spend weeks making figures of weaved straw, which are usually burned or used as fertilizer in Yongjia, East China's Zhejiang province, Nov 5, 2013. The figures include a buffalo, gooses, ducks and shepherd boy. [Photo/icpress.cn]
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