Li Renliang polishes parts for his miniature. [Photo/WeChat account: taicangdaily]

A retired engineer in Taicang has been dedicated to making miniatures for classical Chinese buildings for 15 years.

The 70-year-old Taicang native named Li Renliang was fanatic about ancient architecture when he was young.

Although Li lived on a different job, he has always been obsessed about woodworking. Therefore, when he retired he spent two years studying university textbooks on ancient architecture before starting the practice in 2004.

All his miniatures are pieced together with thousands of rosewood or boxwood parts.

Take the miniature of the ancient Buddha Tower in Shanxi province as an example, the tower is made up of 20,000 or so parts, which took Li more than a year to finish.

The Taicang native said that the smallest part for the tower is only a few millimeters long.

Over the past 15 years, Li has made more than 30 miniatures, including the Foguang Temple and the Great Buddha Hall of Nanchan Temple in Shanxi and the Watchtower of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

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