One of a pair of giant hand-stitched leather shoes in Pingyao

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Updated: 2012-10-11

One of a pair of giant hand-stitched leather shoes in Pingyao

One of a pair of giant hand-stitched leather shoes in Pingyao, Shanxi province. Each shoe is 2.33 meters long, 0.68 meters wide, 0.68 meters high and weighs about 60 kg. A local leather shoe workshop spent three months and used 14 head of cattle to create the shoes. Wei Liang / for China Daily