Boy hides in wardrobe 3 days for father's love

An ignored teenager in Changchun of Jilin Province "got lost" for three days by hiding himself in a wardrobe to draw his father's attention, New Culture News reports.

Guo Xiaoming, 16, made the desperate move because his father Guo Baoxin was addicted to drinking alcohol all day long after his mother died in an accident three years ago, caring little about the boy longing for parental love.

When the drunk father returned home on Saturday, he found the door locked from the inside and no response to the knocking.

When police came on Monday to unlock the house after receiving a report, the boy emerged from the wardrobe in tears - and the father promised to stop drinking and take care of his son.

Husband visits wife's cemetery every day

A man in his 80s in Hohhot of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been visiting the cemetery of his wife, three kilometres away from his home, every day since the latter passed away seven years ago, Beifang Family News reports.

With an erhu, a two-stringed Chinese fiddle, and a cushion, Wang Yunbo takes a bus to the cemetery and plays the traditional Chinese musical instrument for his spouse, who lived with him for 45 years and loved the music very much. He also tells her "news" of the family and the country.

Wang describes the relationship between him and his wife as that of fish and water, saying they couldn't be separated; and he will continue to visit the grave until the day he dies.

Bone carver dreams of making it big

After a process of boiling, carving, polishing and colouring, five ox bones have turned into a fresh and tender cabbage with a green long-horned grasshopper crouching on its leaves - a bone carving made by a farmer in Tongzhou, Beijing, Beijing News reports.

Chen Daoqing, in his 40s, has been a bone-sculpture enthusiast for 20-odd years and his works chiefly focus on produce such as cabbage, corn, pepper and insects like dragonfly and butterfly.

To make his works vivid, Chen often raises some insects at home and observes their behaviour; and he hopes his skills can be transformed into a big business.

(China Daily 03/19/2004 page4)