Students keep porcelain carving tradition alive

A student carves a pattern on a porcelain piece at a workshop in Hejian, North China's Hebei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The summer holiday life has been colorful for primary students in Hejian, a county-level city in Cangzhou, North China's Hebei province because they have been practicing the skill of porcelain carving, which is a city-level intangible cultural heritage.

Some students from Longhuadian village put down their pens and picked up knives and hammers to carve porcelain on Wednesday at a workshop hosted by Hou Hanpeng, a local representative carver and inheritor of the skill.