Pic story: inheritor of traditional skill of building, repairing wood components of architectures

Han Baoyuan carves patterns on wood components of dougong, a unique structural element of interlocking brackets, in Hengxi Village of Jingxing mining area in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 7, 2019. Han Baoyuan, a 70-year-old craftsman, is an inheritor of Jingxing traditional skill of building and repairing wood components of architectures. Han has been devoting himself to the career since he was 13, and completed numerous works featuring elegant ancient style. The skill passed down from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) has been listed in the seventh batch of municipal-level intangible cultural heritages of Shijiazhuang. (Xinhua/Luo Xuefeng)