Elderly man carves Chinese history on more than 1,000 seals

Zhao Qixiang, a 71-year-old man from the city of Jinzhou in Hebei Province, has been making seal carvings since the year 2000. Driven by his obsession, Zhao has become an expert in this art form and has carved more than 1,000 portraits of renowned figures in Chinese history on seals over the past 17 years. His artwork includes emperors, generals, medical specialists and historians. [Photo: VCG]