Tianjin mud sculpture represented by what began in the Qing Dynasty during the Daoguang period

Tianjin "clay figure Zhang" colorful sculpture was developed during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, since Mr. Zhang Mingshan first, has been passed down for 180 years. The clay figure Zhang colored sculpture has distinctive realism artistic characteristics, can realistically portray the character, physical appearance; the pursuit of anatomical structure, exaggeration, reasonable, and appropriate; the use of color and color, elegant and beautiful. Mudman Zhang color sculpture is suitable for indoor display, general size is not large, about 40 cm, can be placed on the desk or shelf. The material used is pure clay with low sand content and no impurities, which is weathered, pulped, filtered, dehydrated, and smashed and kneaded repeatedly with cotton wool to become "mature clay". After the artist hand kneaded into shape, natural air drying, and then apply color painting.

Clay sculpture, commonly known as "color sculpture" clay art is an ancient and common folk art of Chinese folk tradition. That is, with clay molded into a variety of images of a folk craft. Production method is mixed with a little cotton fiber in the clay, pounded well, pinched into a variety of characters of the mud blanks, after drying, coated with primer, and then apply color painting. It takes clay as raw material, kneaded into shape by hand, or plain or colored, mainly figures and animals. Clay sculpture in the folk commonly known as "color sculpture", "mud play". Clay sculpture originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City, popular in Shaanxi, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan and other places.