Five-year-old Norah Crist, from Arlington, Virginia, practices paper cut on Thursday at the desk where Tian Yali, a paper cut master from Shaanxi province in northwest China, demonstrates her work and coaches visitors at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival being held on the National Mall in Washington DC until July 6. This year's festival features two nations of China and Kenya. [Photo by Chen Weihua/China Daily]