Young Pastry Cook Creates Dough Sculptures in Central China

Qi Hongning works on a dough sculpture in Dashizhuang village of Wenfeng district in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province, Aug. 28, 2016.

Qi Hongning shows his dough sculpture works in Dashizhuang village of Wenfeng district in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province, Aug. 28, 2016.

A visitor takes a look at dough sculptures in Dashizhuang village of Wenfeng district in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province, Aug. 28, 2016.

Qi Hongning works on his dough sculpture in Dashizhuang village of Wenfeng district in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province, Aug. 28, 2016.

Qi Hongning makes dough sculptures in Dashizhuang village of Wenfeng district in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province. The 29-year-old man studied pastry cooking at a vocational school. In 2011, he resigned from a restaurant in Zhengzhou as a pastry cook and went to Shenzhen to learn dough sculpting. Qi studied under dough sculpture artist Xiao Zhanhang. A year later, he returned to Anyang and started to receive orders of dough sculpture.