1. The hazard is repeated every year when farmers set fire to straw after harvesting wheat to clear the fields for the next crop.
2. They used wheat straw as feed for stock and used the animal waste to fertilize vegetables.
3. The straw is made from the remainders of their wheat and oats.
4. So the Chinese people made wheat straw patchwork, a unique art form devoted to the royal court.
5. Turn wheat straw into fiber wood, and you get a new home!
6. Since then wheat straw has been considered a symbol of good fortune.
7. Heavy smoke from burning wheat straw in neighboring provinces seriously polluted the air in Beijing early this week.