What tools and materials do you need to make clay sculptures?

The tools needed to make clay sculptures are clay tablets, wet cloth, bamboo knives, toothpicks, matches and conical knives; The required material is mainly yellow mud.

Clay sculpture is a folk handicraft made of clay into various images. The production method is to mix a little cotton fiber into the clay, tamp it evenly, knead it into mud blanks with various patterns, dry it in the shade, coat it with base powder, and then color it. It takes soil as raw material, hand-shaped, or plain or colorful, with figures and animals as the main ones.

Since the Neolithic Age, China clay sculpture art has been uninterrupted, and it has become an important art variety in the Han Dynasty.

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The "Dawu Clay Sculpture" in wucun, Fuyang Town, Chao 'an County, Chaozhou City, together with Tianjin clay figurines Zhang and Wuxi Huishan clay figurines, is called the "Three Great Clay Sculptures in China".

Tracing back to the history of "Dawu Clay Sculpture" is actually longer than the now famous "Clay Fighter Zhang". According to historical records, Dawu Village was called Fengshulong in ancient times. According to legend, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Jingshan's family moved from Zhangpu, Fujian and developed slowly. Wu Jingshan went to Wuxi, Jiangsu Province to do business with his father's family since childhood, and learned the local clay sculpture skills. After he settled in Fengshulong, he made clay sculptures for a living and passed them down from generation to generation. In this way, the history of Dawu clay sculpture has been more than 700 years.

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