Li Tongzhu, a 64-year-old retired man, shows his paper-cut work of "Riverside scenes at the Qingming Festival" in Zaozhuang City, east China's Shandong Province, December 13, 2008. Li has spent 7 months to finish the 3.10-meter-long paper-cut work. "Riverside Scenes at the Qingming Festival" is an antique painting by Zhang Zeduan during the Song Dynasty(960-1279), which vividly depicts the bustling everday life in the Northern Song capital Bianliang (present-day Kaifeng) in extensive details.

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2008)