Chinese Dragon Sculpture of Rice Straw

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Chinese craftsman Fangze Yu has made an impressive dragon sculpture hand-crafted with the 83,600 pieces of rice straw. Mr. Yu and his daughter spent four months working on the dragon at his workshop in China's Jiangxi province. He started by creating a bamboo frame to support the structure. He then painstakingly assembled individual pieces of straw, using 10 different knitting and weaving techniques, to complete the 28-m, 35-kg masterpiece.