Fengxiang County is located in the Western Guanzhong Plain, unearthed tombs of the spring and autumn dynasty, the Warring States, Han and Tang Dynasties all have clay funerary figurines, from which we can know the long history of clay sculpture affordable China tours. Fengxiang painted clay sculpture is a kind of folk art in Fengxiang county, Shaanxi province.

Fengxiang clay sculpture absorbed the emblazonry from ancient stone carving, wood engraving picture, paper cutting and embroidery, with exaggerated shapes and bright color; it is loved by many people. In the past on New Year's Day or other festivals or the temple fair, the local people all took clay sculptures as gifts, and when a baby's completion of its first month of life, the elder should send the clay sculpture "sitting tiger" as a gift.

It is said that the Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang's army of the Sixth Battalion stationed here, hence this village was named "the sixth battalion". Those soldiers who came from Jiangxi province had the craft of pottery, so during their spare time, they mixed the soil with water and then turned it into mud to knead various forms of mud works as toys, painted them and exhibited to others. Later those sergeants transferred into local residents, some of them restarted the ceramic production craft and made full use of the local strong adhesive sheet soils to knead clay figurines, painted and then sold on the temple fairs. The local villagers bought clay sculptures at home to pray for children, protect baby birth, drive evil spirits, and assuage residence, display blessings and auspicious wish. The painted clay figurines of LiuYing village China travel service are famous for this reason and then this art was handed down from generation to generation, became an unique boutique of our country's folk art and enjoyed high reputation home and abroad.

There are three types of Fengxiang painted clay, the first one is clay toys, mainly in animal models, and most of them are images of twelve Chinese zodiac signs; The second is the GuaPian, such as Facial Masks, tiger head, lion head, oxen head, the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, Chinese dragon send sons etc. The third one is person figure, mainly for the folklore and historical characters.

There are more than 170 assortments clay sculptures of different of designs and colors in Fengxiang, among them we have the giant crouching tiger, tiger Gualian of half the height of a man as well as small rabbits and young lions of an inch;

In the process of hundreds of years, clay sculpture China Holidays works continuously inherited and developed, many excellent traditional clay sculpture works have been constantly inherited, especially the typical image of tiger. Materials used to make clay sculptures are black clay, white powder and leather cement etc. Using the mould to fix form, and the modeling is unobtrusive, exaggerate, magnificently decorated, gorgeous and joyful color, configuration is plain and clumsy lovely, all of these make it becomes different in numerous national folk clay figurines.

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