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Bull hung for harvest and peace at Naoyu festival

（ecns.cn）  08:19, July 12, 2013  

Villagers of Dong ethnic group pull a bull up a tree during the local Naoyu festival in Rongshui Ethnic Miao autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Tuesday. During the festival celebrated every June 2 in the Chinese lunar calendar by Miao, Yao and Dong ethnic groups, people catch fish, and offer their prayers for good fortune, a bountiful harvest and peace, by stringing a bull up in a tree until it is strangled to death. (CNS/Tan Kaixing)

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（Editor：LiQian、Ye Xin）

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