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A villager devoted over fifty years on clay sculpture

2018-01-06 18:35 GMT+8
 
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1 / 5   Wei Zhaozhong, a nearly 70-year-old villager in east China's Shandong Province, is a representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of painted clay sculpture in 2013. /Photo via China Daily

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2 / 5   Using his imagination with whistles, he designs a colorful clay tiger. /Photo via China Daily

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3 / 5   In the past fifty years, he has created over 100,000 painted clay figures. /Photo via China Daily

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4 / 5   After inheriting skills from his father as a 15-years-old, he is the only one who sticks to the handicraft among his brothers. /Photo via China Daily

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5 / 5   Before coloring these tigers, he needs to warm up the pigment. /Photo via China Daily

 
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