Chinese Hand Painted Masks

See this beautiful hand painted animal clay sculpture and masks:

Tiger:



















Ox:














Mice:











Pig:
















Dog:

















Rooster:























Monkey:


















Sheep:




















Snake:

Dragon:

Rabbit:

Fighting Ox:

Character:

Mask:












History of it:

Since the Neolithic(2500 B.C), China clay sculpture art has existed, in the Han Dynasty it has become a major artistic varieties. When the rise of Taoism and Buddhism were introduced, as well as the Buddhist temples, imperial court rise, directly contributed to the clay sculpture and clay sculpture idol demand the development of the art. By the Tang Dynasty, clay sculpture art reached its peak.
Our clay sculpture is origin of Fengxiang County; there are more than 100 households do clay sculptures by hands now. There is a history about it: in 1370 A.D, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (emperor of Song Dynasty) conducted General Li Wenbing to protect Fengxiang County. After the war was over,
These soldiers settled down and began to make clay sculpture to sell in the market for living.

In order to sell a good price, they painted various colors on the sculpture, Different colors and veins have different meanings. Green means having a long lifetime; red means being prosperous in the four seasons. Sweet grass means protecting you from anything evil, fruit tree means wealthy, butterfly means everything goes well, penny means doing a great job in business.


After 600 years of development, today these painting clay sculptures are as an independent art form, with high aesthetic value and becoming the special and wonderful crafts for home decoration. Our Chinese clay sculpture (Nisu) will take you to the paradise of folk art and Chinese cultural.

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