Dick Whittington once said that London Streets were paved with gold. But if he had visited this dual carriageway in China, the geography in his famous saying could have been rather different. These stunning photos shows corn seeds being dried  in China's Henan province, converting the giant highway into a makeshift Yellow Brick Road. Villagers in Zhengzhou spent hours painstakingly laying out the seeds to bask in the sun rays, turning the black tarmac into a golden ocean. The maize is spread laboriously over the road by the workers' hands - as cars and other signs of China's modern world carry on whizzing by beside them. This is how Chinese farms traditionally dry corn because they do not have large machines to do the drying for them. The tarmac warms up in the sun, providing an ideal cost-saving way to dry the province's corn crop. A dual carriageway is turned into a makeshift Yellow Brick Road by corn seeds in the Henan province of China . Villagers in Zhengzhou spent hours painstakingly laying out the seeds, turning the black tarmac highway into a sea of yellow . It is spread laboriously by hand over the road, as cars and other transport whizzes on behind them . This is how Chinese farms dry corn because they do not have large machines to do it for them . The tarmac warms up in the sun's rays and so makes an ideal cost-saving way to dry the maize . These pictures show the tradition juxtaposed with China's more modern side of vehicles and tarmac roads . The tradition goes on throughout the country but is particularly popular in this province .
Busy highway turned into makeshift Yellow Brick Road in Zhengzhou, China .
Villagers spread the corn seeds  laboriously by hand over the six-lane road .
This is how Chinese farms dry corn in absence of large machines to do so .
Tarmac warms up in sun rays and dries the seeds in cost-saving manner .
Dick Whittington once said that London Streets were paved with gold. But if he had visited this dual carriageway in China, the geography in his famous saying could have been rather different. These stunning photos shows corn seeds being dried  in China's Henan province, converting the giant highway into a makeshift Yellow Brick Road. Villagers in Zhengzhou spent hours painstakingly laying out the seeds to bask in the sun rays, turning the black tarmac into a golden ocean. The maize is spread laboriously over the road by the workers' hands - as cars and other signs of China's modern world carry on whizzing by beside them. This is how Chinese farms traditionally dry corn because they do not have large machines to do the drying for them. The tarmac warms up in the sun, providing an ideal cost-saving way to dry the province's corn crop. A dual carriageway is turned into a makeshift Yellow Brick Road by corn seeds in the Henan province of China . Villagers in Zhengzhou spent hours painstakingly laying out the seeds, turning the black tarmac highway into a sea of yellow . It is spread laboriously by hand over the road, as cars and other transport whizzes on behind them . This is how Chinese farms dry corn because they do not have large machines to do it for them . The tarmac warms up in the sun's rays and so makes an ideal cost-saving way to dry the maize . These pictures show the tradition juxtaposed with China's more modern side of vehicles and tarmac roads . The tradition goes on throughout the country but is particularly popular in this province .
Villagers in Zhengzhou spent hours painstakingly them. This is how Chinese farms traditionally dry corn because they do not have large machines to is turned into a makeshift Yellow Brick Road by corn seeds in the Henan province of China . laboriously by hand over the road, as cars and how Chinese farms dry corn because they do not tarmac warms up in the sun's rays and so makes an