How is clay sculpture made?

Clay sculpture, commonly known as "color sculpture" clay art is a traditional Chinese folk an ancient common folk art. 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, made of various characters pinch the mud blanks, after drying, coated with primer, and then apply color painting.

It is made of clay as raw material, hand-made into shape, or vegetarian or colorful, mainly figures, 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.

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More p>Clay sculpture art is a kind of Chinese folk art, folk artists with natural or cheap materials, can make exquisite small crafts, won the public's favorite. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, folk colorful sculptures won the favor of the people, the most famous of which are the "mud man Zhang" in Tianjin and the Huishan mud man in Wuxi.

It has long been out of the country, become a messenger of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, traveled across the ocean, for more and more countries and people accepted and loved. Although mud sculpture is not in terms of technological content, but it does add a new highlight in your life. It is simple, intuitive, real and more "up close and personal". It is also very challenging to collect for a long time, and it has a collector's value as well.

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