To celebrate the upcoming Year of the Pig, a Chinese folk artist created dozens of cute piggy figurines with traditional clay sculpting technique, Jan. 14, in east China's Rongcheng city, Shandong Province. (Photo/Xinhua)
To celebrate the upcoming Year of the Pig, a Chinese folk artist created dozens of cute piggy figurines with traditional clay sculpting technique, Jan. 14, in east China's Rongcheng city, Shandong Province. (Photo/Xinhua)
By using colored clay, sculpting knives and brush pen, Jiang breathed life into the dirt and designed different characters in vivid depiction. (Photo/Xinhua)
The artist, Jiang Xuejie, is an inheritor of the local clay sculpting technique in east China's Rongcheng city, Shandong Province. (Photo/Xinhua)