As the Spring Festival of 2022 approaches, Liu Meiling (right), a provincial-level clay sculpture non-hereditary inheritor of Hetao Street in Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, is making a series of New Year's "Meng Hu". The picture shows the clay sculpture "Thai Song" of the Tiger Zodiac created in the New Year. Photo by Wang Haibin
Qingdao, January 23 (People's Daily News) -- As the Spring Festival of the Lunar "Year of the Tiger" approaches, the fishery village craftsmen in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, have shown their skills and created clay sculptures and fabric handicrafts of the Year of the Tiger in various forms, implying the "auspicious Year of the Tiger" Guotai Min'an.
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, Liu Meiling, a provincial-level non-hereditary heir of clay sculptures, displayed the newly completed "Called Tiger" clay sculpture. Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, Liu Meiling created a clay sculpture of "Zhao Cai Na Fu" for the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger. Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, Liu Meiling and her brother created a series of clay sculptures in the Year of the Tiger. Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, folk craftsman Zhao Jianmei is making handmade cloth tigers for the Spring Festival. Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, folk craftsman Zhao Jianmei displayed the handmade folk traditional "tiger head shoes". Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, folk craftsman Zhao Jianmei demonstrated the handmade folk traditional "tiger head hat". Photo by Wang Haibin
In January 2022, in Hetao Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, folk craftsman Zhao Jianmei laid out the bed for the Spring Festival to catch handmade cloth tigers. Photo by Wang Haibin
Source: People's Daily News