The Traditional Handicraft --Clay Figurines and The Four Clay Figurines Schools
The traditional handicraft of clay figurines is one china folk art form of long history. Its emerge is full of features based on ancient fairy tale story. According to a Chinese fairy tale, humans were created out of clay by a goddess. In the hands of the folk artists, this myth is repeated over and over as the otherwise worthless clay is molded into fascinating sculptures via kneading, basking, coloring and baking, that is just clay figurine.
In recent years, with the development of China's tourism and flourish economy, the Chinese Clay Figurine Art is staging a comeback, and clay fingurines are widely taken by the Chinese and tourists as decorative crafts or travel souvenirs.
The Chinese Clay Figurine Art has a 3,000- year-history, and there are four schools of clay figurines to make clay sculptures in China, like Clay Figurine Fengxiang, Clay Figurine Zhang, Huishan Clay Figurine, Gaomi Clay Figurine. They are located in different province and have their own special art features as well as craftsmanship.
