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Video: Chongqing artist gives life to tree leaves

With a knife and a lamp, Huang Jilin sits for more than 10 hours a day, busily carving tree leaves. As an inheritor of Chongqing paper-cutting, a local intangible cultural heritage, the 63-year-old began exploring leaf carving in 2015. "Every leaf is different and I can create art from the natural texture," she said. It usually takes about two months to turn leaves into artworks after a number of processes, including selection, cleaning, soaking, drawing, carving and drying.

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