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Make to basis of flour of rice, the dolls in dough to salt are also called figurines in dough of rice. The dough is dried to be colored then. The craftsmen show evidence of a lot of cleverness in the creation of multiple beautiful and varied objects, also representing a lot of human beings that of the flowers, bugs, let's pitch, etc.

The art of the figurines made of wood and in clay carries up fighting Kingdoms at the time (476. 221 J. ave - C.), and benefitted a big popularity during the dynasty of the Hans (206 J. ave - C ..220 ap. J. - C.). In the years 1930 and 1940, the manufacturers of figurines often held at the corner of the streets and in the alleys of Beijing. In less three to five minutes, they created on order a rooster, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, characters in the novel mythological classic Chinese Xi you ji (The Pilgrimage toward the west). And the figurines that were born under their hands were so living that they charmed the public.

The dolls in dough to salt of M. Lang were the most well-known of the old Beijing. Descended of a poor family, Lang Shao'an had learned this art at the age of twelve years. Its creatures reflected the daily life of the inhabitants of Beijing as well as their m.urs. All. made uvres of his hands, that they are human or animal, seemed inhabited by the mind of that that they represented. One day, it created a grasshopper so living that it was difficult to say if it was true or reproduced.

Tang Zibo was another master celebrates. He was reputed for its charming and fine miniatures. They were so small that they could hold in a shell of walnut. In spite of their smallness, the eyes and the eyebrows of the figurines, all as the fingers of their hands, had a remarkable sharpness, to the closer to the detail. Same under a gnarl, they appeared fine and true. The reputation of the dolls in dough to salt even passed the borders of the country. The miniatures of Liu Yinru, a young contemporary artist, as them " 18 arhats", them " 12 beauties of Jinling" and them " Girls washing silk" were worth him an international consecration.