A snow-covered path led to a village farmhouse in the Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County where a shaft of sunlight poked through a window, seemingly intent on engraving the elderly man's silhouette onto the floor. The m...A snow-covered path led to a village farmhouse in the Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County where a shaft of sunlight poked through a window, seemingly intent on engraving the elderly man's silhouette onto the floor. The man was deftly engraving a peach pit and soon his precise cuts created the image of a tiny, lively monkey. The skills involved in this art, called "kernel carving" have lasted six generations.展开更多
文摘A snow-covered path led to a village farmhouse in the Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County where a shaft of sunlight poked through a window, seemingly intent on engraving the elderly man's silhouette onto the floor. The man was deftly engraving a peach pit and soon his precise cuts created the image of a tiny, lively monkey. The skills involved in this art, called "kernel carving" have lasted six generations.