| Personage & Adornment, 1st prize |
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Wula Boot
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| Zhou Xingli(China) |
| The wula boot is made of leather and wula sedge for keeping out cold in the northeast of China. The accurate time of its beginning is not clear. | ||
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1. In the 1960s and 1970s, wula boot was prevalent
for the poor in the northeast China.
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2. Cutting the
grass in the marsh.
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4. It took him almost 45 minutes to hammer a
little bundle of grass to soft.
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7. To wear wula with barefoot and tie it round
shanks are necessary.
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8. It's a skillful job to wrap it.
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10. Wearing a pair of big wula in the snowy outside.
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11. Going home.
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