Lacquer ware specialists display their artistic skills

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2015-01-22

A competitor is doing the lacquer drawing, Sept 19, 2014 [Photo by Yan Yan/Xinhua News]

Another participant is painting on a lacquer ware, Sept 19, 2014 [Photo by Yan Yan/Xinhua News]

A competitor is doing some carvings on the lacquer board, Sept 19, 2014 [Photo by Yan Yan/Xinhua News]

By the time the annual lacquer ware skills competition, in Pingyao county, Shanxi province, had come to a close, on Sept 19, 2014, as part of the National Skills Competition for 2014, 40 lacquer ware crafts people had joined the activity from outside to show their special talent to the public.