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Mud Sculpture, 'Zodiac Pig'
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This hand-cast mud sculpture pig is painted with colorful designs. Pink peony flowers and Chinese coins represent luck and wealth. The artist gives the pig bigger eyes and rounder head to make the boar looks more pleasant and lovable.
The pigs always have food to eat and they dont need to work in the field. Thus, in Chinese culture, pigs represent wealth and relaxed life style. People even believe that being born in the year of zodiac boar will bless the new born a very fortunate life.
The craft of making painted clay-figurines of Fengxiang has a recorded history of more than 3,000 years.
The figurines are made of local Fengxiang clay, which was mixed with pulp and painted after it was shaped. The images on the clay figurines typically included flowers, birds, fish, insects, as well as birds and beasts, reflecting cultural characteristics of ancient China. The figurines are painted with such bright colors and traditionally each color has a special meaning. Green represents longevity; red means a flourishing year. Also each painted pattern design has meaning: pomegranate represents happiness and prospers offspring; butterfly brings good fortune; peony represents fortune and luck.
The pigs always have food to eat and they dont need to work in the field. Thus, in Chinese culture, pigs represent wealth and relaxed life style. People even believe that being born in the year of zodiac boar will bless the new born a very fortunate life.
The craft of making painted clay-figurines of Fengxiang has a recorded history of more than 3,000 years.
The figurines are made of local Fengxiang clay, which was mixed with pulp and painted after it was shaped. The images on the clay figurines typically included flowers, birds, fish, insects, as well as birds and beasts, reflecting cultural characteristics of ancient China. The figurines are painted with such bright colors and traditionally each color has a special meaning. Green represents longevity; red means a flourishing year. Also each painted pattern design has meaning: pomegranate represents happiness and prospers offspring; butterfly brings good fortune; peony represents fortune and luck.
