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Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

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Excerpt from the January 2022 issue of Car Road Trip magazine

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Clay sculpture tiger town nursing home, cloth art tiger auspicious, face plastic tiger to send Rui Tianfu, paper-cut tiger festive Yingmen, in the long river of history, tiger-themed various folk crafts gathered into the tiger culture, long-standing, endless.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

The clay sculpture tiger is running forward, the shape is simple, the facial features behind the coloring are vivid, the firm nose, round eyes, exaggerated ears and open mouth, coupled with the eye-catching "King" character on the head, appear mighty and majestic, and the brave and awe-inspiring atmosphere naturally emitted is awe-inspiring, and at the same time, the cute expression and dynamic and lively shape are revealed in the amiable. Folk artists rely on their rich imagination to create the ideal tiger image in the minds of the common people, although the shape of the tiger is exaggerated, but everywhere shows the charm and momentum of the tiger.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

Growing up on the yellow land, Shi Linzhu, a Pingding clay sculpture artist whose skills have been passed down from his ancestors, has been rooted in the soil of folk art for forty years, and a bunch of lifeless mud in his hands is full of vitality. The creation of the clay sculpture tiger is the crystallization of the fusion of his accumulated skills and local culture over the years.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

Cloth tiger, tiger head tiger brain tiger baby strong

"Combine the quaint form with the modern characteristics, so that more people like the cloth tiger and get the blessing of the tiger." Combining traditional culture, Wang Xia has designed a variety of fabric products with tiger as the theme. It can be imagined that wearing a tiger head hat on his head, a tiger bib around his neck, a tiger belly pocket tied on his belly, a tiger head shoes under his feet, a cloth tiger in his hand, and a tiger sachet hanging on his body, how tiger and tiger baby who is so fully "armed" would be. Fabric tiger set viewing, collection, gifts in one, has a bright and brilliant expressiveness, but also has a simple rural atmosphere, after thousands of years of change and baptism of wind and rain, has always been full of the simple folk customs in the mountains, showing a long traditional culture.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

Paper-cut tiger, tiger add rui qi too big year

"Tiggo is posted on the window, and generations will enjoy the blessings of Qingfu." Pingding people have a special love for window flowers and paper-cutting, and every time the New Year's Festival comes, big city towns, villages and shops hang flower lanterns, paste window flowers, and red paper-cutting renders a joyous atmosphere. In the Pingding dialect, "tiger" and "fu" are pronounced similarly, so the common people are particularly fond of paper-cutting with the "tiger" pattern.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

The home of Han Jianhua, president of the Pingding County Paper-cutting Association and a folk paper-cutting artist, is in a small farm courtyard located in the junction of the city and the suburbs, and the walls, tables and windows in the house are full of paper-cutting, there are paper-cuttings with traditional patterns of the Zodiac, there are Pingding characteristic wedding plate paper-cuttings, and creative works that reflect the local culture.

Explore and discover | Tiggo Tianfu, tiger culture at your fingertips

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