These tigers can be divided into hanging tigers and crouching tigers. the Hanging tiger belongs to the coupon type, with frontal eyes and forehead, strong bright-colored, its eyebrow was made up of two opposite fish noses, what is more interesting China tour deals is his nose was plugged with three red peppers, which were said to be the symbol of women's rude and unreasonable personality, here was used to show the tiger's prestige. The simple folk custom was naturally blended in making of these tigers. The Chinese character 王（king) on the tiger head was replaced by the peony, the symbol of wealth. The other ornamentations of the tiger face are combined with grain, flowers, vegetable & fruit, reflects the eternal laws of nature of continuous eruptions of life and blossom and yield fruit. A precious gourd was painted on the tiger face, just like what the Book of Songs says "continuous little melon ", which is the symbol future descendants' prosperity.

The crouching tiger's forelegs were stretching out while the hind legs were sitting on the ground, and his shape was so abstract, but without losing the charm of tiger. The face is compact, and ears are extremely big, just in order to show its majesty. The body is decorated with lotus, peony patterns, rich and generous, with high ornamental value.

However, what surprises us is that the clay sculpture artists of Liu Ying village in Fengxiang had never seen a tiger's appearance, but they depended on their rich imagination, created the ideal image of tiger of the folk people's mind. All moulds of tigers have great gap with the prototype of a tiger, but all possess the charm and style of a tiger.

The ideal creation and the local customs have mutual influence on each other. According to the local custom, when a baby completed its first month of life, one hundred days, one year, relatives and friends often send the baby a crouching tiger, placed it on the Kang, to show their long-life, rich blessings to the child. Therefore, tiger became the rustic emotional sustenance. At the same time, influenced by the feudal ideology and folk custom China travel service, people are used to pasting the Door-god on the front door, and the tiger on the back door. Tiger then become the embodiment of justice, to drive the wizardry.

The twelve zodiacs clay are of great characteristic, the issue of the Chinese zodiac stamps is the creation of MaWeiTu in lunar new year of the Horse. The Selected clay horse was created by Hu Xinmin, the nephew of Hu shen, lived in the ancestral clay sculpture craft's edification he himself worked very hard, finally completing his bold creation in March, 1982. As the folk art of the Qin and Han culture, the pattern of horse in Qin and Han Dynasties was Shuang Guanwen, a symbol of childhood sweetheart; Five dots represents Wuzi DuoGui(Chinese chess); the saddle's pattern was the common angle yin and Yang lines on the bronze wares, means recuperation; The twelve lines the horsetail, represents Earthly-branch system, means the eternal cycle of birth and death will never cease; on the horseback there are seven dots represent the Big Dipper, means an old hand is a good guide and the lucky star shines bright forever.

Fengxiang clay sculpture has strong local flavor and high folk culture, folk art and aesthetics research value, deeply liked by related experts. But under the influence of the marketing environment, now the Fengxiang clay sculpture artists tend to base production on sales prospects, cater to the market needs, which not only make a lot of traditional products at the edge of extinction, but also make the Fengxiang clay sculpture gradually lose its original cultural connotation, constantly deteriorated. Before the nineteen sixties, Liu Ying village and the neighboring village has more than 300 peasant families producing clay sculptures, now there are only Hu shen, Hu Xinmin, Hu Yongxing, Du Yin, Han Suocun these artists spend their slack season engaging in sculpture creation and production.

Now Fengxiang China Holidays clay has been sold overseas, such as the United States, Germany, France, Japan and so on, at the same time there are a large number of visitors, visiting and purchasing things here, about 100000 visitors flow rate each year in this village, thus Liu Ying village has been elected as demonstration base of the cultural industry of Shaanxi province.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20th, 2006; and this heritage was approved by the State Council as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. On June 5, 2007, Hu shen of Fengxiang County, Shaanxi province was confirmed by the State Ministry of Culture as a representative successor of cultural heritage project, and was included in the list of 226 representative successors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage project.


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