Chinese craftsman carves Beijing Winter Olympic elements on eggshells | 中國工匠在蛋殼上雕刻北京冬奧會元素

😃 Like and Subscribe: 😎 Mix - BUILD by CHINA: A talented 64-year-old Chinese craftsman has created a series of egg sculptures with the theme of emblems and mascots of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, including icons of ice and snow sports. Zhou Zhongzhen, who comes from Tangshan City in north China’s Hebei Province, is an inheritor of the country’s intangible cultural heritage of eggshell sculpture, an art he has started engaging himself in since a young age. “I have been studying eggshell carving since I was 20 years old. Carving on eggshell seems easy, but it is actually very difficult to do because it requires undivided concentration and perseverance. When carving, the slightest carelessness can lead to the breaking of the eggshell. At the beginning, my fingers would often get cut by the graver,“ said Zhou. The fing