Xia?Guoshun,?an?artist?from?Zhushan?town,?Hubei?province,?cleans?his?work?called?"Chrysanthemum?Horse".?According?to?the?Chinese?zodiac,?the?Lunar?New?Year?that?is?fast?approaching?is?the?Year?of?Horse.?To?mark?the?event,?folk?artists?around?the?countryhave?created?horse-themed?works?to?welcome?the?coming?year.?[Photo/Xinhua]

?湖北省宣恩縣珠山鎮(zhèn)雕刻師夏國順在清洗“菊花馬”工藝品（2013年9月28日攝）。馬年將至，各地民間藝人創(chuàng)作、制作以馬為主題的藝術(shù)作品，迎接新春的到來。