China's traditional folk art of colorful sculpture has a long history, more local characteristics, you also know what places of colorful sculpture, can briefly introduce their characteristics?

Clay sculpture, is an ancient and common folk art in China, is made of clay, hand kneaded into shape, or plain or colored, mainly figures, animals. There are traces of clay sculpture in many places in China, and clay sculpture is also divided into many categories. This issue of Folk Art takes you to learn what kinds of clay sculptures there are.

Tianjin "Mudman Zhang" colorful sculpture

Tianjin "Mudman Zhang" colorful sculpture was developed during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, since Mr. Zhang Mingshan's first creation, has been passed down for 180 years. Mud people Zhang colorful sculpture has a distinctive reality of the main Tianjin mud people Zhang works

artistic characteristics, can truly portray the character, physical appearance; the pursuit of anatomical structure, exaggerated reasonable, appropriate; with color, elegant and beautiful. Mud people Zhang color sculpture 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 painted.

Wuxi colored sculpture

Wuxi colored sculpture has a history of 400 years. Through generations of artistic practice, artists have created the world-renowned Huishan clay figures. Huishan clay figures are rich in variety, divided into two categories: coarse goods and fine goods. Coarse goods, also known as juggling goods, mainly to pray for good luck as the theme, the use of molds to print blanks, hand-painted color, its shape is exaggerated, the lines are simple and clumsy, the overall fruitful childish fat, painted with a bold brush, strong color contrast. Mainly for children to play. Fine goods are mainly hand pinching to shape the artistic image.

Content is mostly based on theater themes, so it is called hand pinch theater. Also pinched statues of Buddha and works reflecting current life. A piece of work from the feet pinch, from the bottom to the top, from inside to outside, segmented combination, in one fell swoop. In the color painting, delicate strokes are used to depict from head to toe, from the character's expression to the folds of the clothes. The hand-cupped drama reproduces the typical scenes of drama performances, highlights the instantaneous demeanor of the drama characters, vivid shape, colorful and pleasing to the eye, beautifully decorated, everlasting. Is the people's home decorations and gifts.

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Chaoshan mud sculpture

Chaoshan mud sculpture is a kind of pinch clay art, Chaozhou is commonly known as the "Tu An Zai". The mud sculpture of Dawu Village, Fuyang Town, Chaoan County, Chaoshan City, is known as one of the three major mud sculptures in China, together with "Mud Man Zhang" in Tianjin and Huishan Mud Man in Wuxi. According to legend, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Jingshan, the founder of the village, settled in Dawu with his family from Zhangpu, Fujian Province, and made his living by molding clay toys, and his skills were passed down from one generation to another, and gradually developed into a great spectacle, with a history of more than 700 years so far. During the Qing Dynasty, Dawu clay molding entered a period of prosperity and development, with Wu Panqiang as the representative of Dawu clay molding artists emerged one after another, and the kneading and molding skills became more and more mature. Dawu mud sculpture technology is unique, there is a body, martial arts scene, face painting and other schools of thought, the character modeling lifelike, rich and colorful varieties, colorful and natural, fresh and elegant, the depth of artistic attainments is breathtaking.

Huishan mudman

Huishan mudman produced very early, now there is no way to know its exact time. Here, in the agricultural season, almost every family made clay figures, since ancient times, "family good plastic, household will color" said. Every New Year's Eve, at temple fairs and markets, people