Seventy-year-old Yang Yulou works in his studio. [Photo/WeChat account: taicangdaily]

Ancient porcelain chips might be treated as rubbish by most of us but an old man from Taicang turns them into exquisite art pieces.

He insists on carving red wood for two hours every day and inserting the ancient chips into the wood.

The 70-year-old man, called Yang Yulou, is a retired worker.