Xunxian county clay sculpture sanpai

Since the development of clay sculpture in Xunxian County, it has been divided into three distinctive schools: the Mud Goo Goo School represented by Wang Lan Tian; Periodontitis school represented by "Mud Zhang Lixin" Xihe Zhang; The school of mud opera represented by Song Dynasty and Song Dynasty.

The clay goo goo kneaded by Wang Pai in the traditional way can make a "goo goo" sound, and its shape is simple, lively and colorful. His works are collected in the British Museum in London, England, and Wang Lantian was rated as a master of folk crafts by UNESCO. The descendants of Wangmen keep innovating on the basis of inheriting the tradition of their parents. In 2007, Wang Xuefeng was awarded the outstanding inheritor of China folk culture by China Folk Writers Association and the representative inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage project by the Ministry of Culture. His works, Auspicious Olympics, Fuwa and Lion Rolling Hydrangea, passed the evaluation of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and participated in the first exhibition of "Sailing the Olympics and China Folk Art Exhibition".

Zhang Pai is famous for kneading the eye muscles, hence the name "Mud Zhang Lixin". There are acrobatic eye weeks, Ding Gang eye weeks, rapping monkeys, moon-watching monkeys, dancing monkeys, smoking monkeys, drunken monkeys and so on. These monkeys are strange in shape, fictional and reasonable, appropriately deformed and funny. "Mud Zhang Lixin" was awarded the title of "First Class Arts and Crafts Artist" by UNESCO.

Song school, represented by Song, is called "Clay Fighter Song" because of kneading and playing the voiced clay figurine, clay horse and zodiac. He was awarded the title of "Folk Arts and Crafts Artist" by UNESCO and China Folk Writers Association, and "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by Henan Federation of Literary and Art Circles. His works were collected by Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art and other units. The works of the three major schools have had a certain influence in the world.