The origin of clay figurine Zhang

The famous folk clay figurine in China is the representative of the northern clay figurine: Tianjin clay figurine-clay figurine Zhang.

Clay figurine Zhang is from Zhang Mingshan. Zhang Mingshan is clever and imaginative. He often watches people from all walks of life in the market, watches various roles in the theater, and then secretly pinches them in his cuffs. The clay figurines he made were lifelike and identical, which became a much-told story for a while. Zhang Mingshan inherited the traditional clay sculpture art and drew nutrition from sister arts such as painting, traditional opera and folk woodblock New Year pictures.

After decades of hard work, he created more than 10,000 works in his life. His art is unique and famous all over the world. People loved his works and affectionately nicknamed him clay figurine Zhang.

Zhang Mingshan clay figurines include characters in folk stories, novels and dramas, instant images of working people in real life, positive characters and negative characters. His works are full of interest.

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Techniques and characteristics of clay figurines;

Clay figurines are made of pure clay with low sand content and no impurities. After weathering, beating, filtering, dehydration and repeated beating of cotton wool, it becomes "cooked clay" with strong adhesion. Auxiliary materials include wood, bamboo and rattan, lead wire, paper and silk flower. Molded works should avoid direct sunlight or be placed around fire, and the correct air drying method should be natural air drying.

"Clay figurine" should be thoroughly dried, fired in a kiln at about 700℃ and polished before it can be colored. The color application of colored plastic sculptures has made great progress than in the past. The previous pigments were all water pink, which was poor in hiding, easy to burst, fall off and fade, and could not be preserved for a long time.

With the development of science and technology, although it is expensive now, it has many advantages, such as strong hiding power, no bursting, no falling off, no fading, insoluble in water after drying, and washable. It takes about 30 days for a complete work.

People's Network-A hundred years of clay figurine Zhang has been passed down.

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