A miniatured Tian'anmen, made by Zhu Jinghe from Anguo in Hebei province, is shown in this undated photo. [Photo: cnr.cn]

A farmer-craftsman from north China's Hebei Province has recently unveiled to the public his latest work of art, a miniatured Tian'anmen, the symbol architecture of Beijing, by using thousands of pear and jujube wood pieces- a material harder even than iron.

As China National Radio reports, the farmer artist, Zhu Jinghe, from Anguo, a county level city in Hebei, created the magnificent miniature wood artwork, complemented with exquisite oil paints, just to to express the best wishes of Chinese farmers for the upcoming National Day holiday and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

What makes the 1.8-meter-long, 63-centimeter-wide and 75-centimeter high Tian'anmen miniature unique is that among its materials are pieces of hard wood as small as one sixth of a cubic centimeter. And each gate is inlaid with 81 copper nails.

(CRI.cn September 14, 2007)