To celebrate the upcoming Year of the Pig, a Chinese folk artist created dozens of cute piggy figurines with traditional clay sculpting technique. /VCG Photo

The artist, Jiang Xuejie, is an inheritor of the local clay sculpting technique in east China's Rongcheng city in Shandong Province. /VCG Photo

By using colored clay, sculpting knives and brush pen, Jiang breathed life into the dirt and designed different characters in vivid depiction. /VCG Photo

According to Chinese lunar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on February 5 this year and the zodiac sign of the year is the Pig. /VCG Photo