That arrived in Beijing a few hours from the West Station, went to the White Cloud Temple, out of left Beijing.
Hours of harvest, however, quite large. Baiyun time in the renovation, Shanxi mud Thai craftsmen working. A foreign couple tourists, hurried to shoot down a long time embedded footsteps, do not want to leave.
Art looked at people, very young, mostly 20s. Waist belt hung BB machine, income is not very high, they say there is more than 1000 yuan. Artist in his hand a book, according to the book on the plane patterns, carved out of the three-dimensional horse. Mud lying on the ground, is from outside the original mud, mud with straw. Beach sand sculpture is to add the glue, and do not know Shanxi mud carved there any glue?
Artists, some people may ask them, they went around the clay birds do live. Baiyun invited, and must have been carved mud working-class artists.
A few months later, I Pingyao Shuang Lin Temple, see this clay sculptures together quite spectacular, looking back to see the Beijing process, the mud, grass, color ... .... Making mud carved people do fine. If more people go to inheritance, perhaps more than local children selling souvenirs and more long-term development prospects.
A process, a culture, popular craft for thousands of years of maturity. Why not? Not enough attention to these folk art truly do?
Tibet's clay birds are: first, the loess impurity-free powdered, mix a small amount of plant fiber, dilute with water transfer and absorption, making it the toughness of the blank mud, and then die stamping forming, on the well-ventilated place to dry. Semi-dry dressing with a little graver completely dry impose color, which has become a work of art. General sculptures and statues of Buddha are mostly for family worship.
Shanxi mud eagle, not seen a model. Like all parts of steamed buns, but the technique and taste are different. Museum of clay birds do not how? Since the craft can be so vivid, lifelike. Why is not the same as Wax Museum? Tailor-made, and the Wax Museum the mud like the development of Chinese carved it? Glassware. Journey back from the Pingyao, referring to the color carved Shuang Lin Temple. Always so the aftertaste.
Shanxi folk art, carry on the corner of the whole of China have? Western architecture in China blossom everywhere.
Suppose there is a museum carved mud.
Author: xieenrong
