Bottling up their talent
China DailyLi Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY With surgical precision artist produces fantastic images inside a tiny vial, Yang Feiyue reports. Seen from afar, Li Shaoyue wields a thin bamboo stick up and down inside a tiny glass vessel secured steadily in her left hand, as if trying to fish something out of it. The air is still in her workshop in Zibo, East China's Shandong province, as the artist, who just turned 30, sits still behind a desk and concentrates on the glass bottle before her, from which vivid landscape scenery, animal and human images emerge from the inside. Her stunning delivery of neihua with local characteristics that was named a national intangible cultural heritage in 2014 recently roused a wave of public attention, with more than 8 million views online.