What is cloth tiger?

The cloth tiger is a kind of traditional crafts that has been widely spread in Chinese folklore since ancient times, and it is also a good children's toy, indoor decoration, gift and personal collection. It has many varieties, widely spread, is a very local flavor of folk crafts.

The cloth tiger originated from the ancient tiger totem worship, but in Huaiyang, it is more widely spread from the legend of Fuxi Nuwa's marriage. According to legend, in the ancient times, due to the collapse of the sky and the earth, there were only two siblings left on earth, Fuxi brother and sister, and they each went to look for a spouse, but no one to find, so they rolled the mill for the marriage, and Fuxi was ashamed to see his sister, so he dressed up as a tiger.

Brother and sister married, the human race can continue, then there will be a cloth tiger. Therefore, the cloth tiger is no longer a common sense of the decorations and toys, but also the descendants of the human ancestor Fuxi, female snail nostalgia and admiration, and become a symbol of early human reproduction worship materialization and symbol.

Expanded Information

The main characteristics of the cloth tiger:

1, God-like

These cloth tiger, yellow cloth wrapped in leather, manually sewn, distorting the tiger's original shape, its body and tail are greatly contracted, and limbs have become shorter. However, the main features of the tiger have not been overlooked in any way.

2, exaggerated deformation

These tigers have very different shapes, some are stable and serene, some are lively and well-behaved. These different styles of tiger modeling have a **** the same characteristics, they are all based on exaggeration, deformation, with different ways of the tiger's appearance, and this feature is also integrated into the folk cloth tigers.

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