Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Tan Mingkui, 83, works in his self-made cement craft workshop on a slope in Tongjiang Village, Nanning City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. Tan, a big fan of local opera, began to create figures such as animals and characters from operas out of cement and rocks in 2001. As time has passed, he has amassed so many works that a cement figure exhibition of sorts has taken shape in his village. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)