A huge root carving named “The Peach Blossom Spring” is one of the most attractive artworks displayed at Taoyuan Craft and Art Museum in Changde City, central China’s Hunan Province. /Chinanews Photo

Measuring 15.88 meters long, 6.3 meters wide and 3 meters high, the artwork was declared as the biggest willow root sculpture by Guinness World Records in September 2017. /Chinanews Photo

The highlight of the sculpture is not about the size or wonderful craft it presented, but the ancient story it recounts. /Chinanews Photo

Based on the famous Chinese tale “The Peach Blossom Spring” written by Tao Yuanming in 421, the artwork panoramically describes the process of a fisherman’s chance discovering an ethereal utopia where people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature and unaware of the outside world for centuries. /Chinanews Photo