Immense "Two Saints" paper-cut that Gao Xiaodong, an amateur Shanxi folk artist, and his wife Yan Fang, made got Guinness World Records and World Records Association recognition, recently, as the world's largest paper-cut. Gao, from the city of Hejin, has been interested in paper-cuts and drawing since childhood and took one year and three months to make this paper-cut, which cost more than 50,000 yuan.

Edited by Roger Bradshaw