Bull hung for harvest and peace at Naoyu festival(4/5)

Villagers of Dong ethnic group join hands in pulling the sacrificial bull up a tree at a blessing ceremony held for local Naoyu festival. 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. [Photo: CNS/Tan Kaixing]