It's the monkey! Coming from a family of traditional Chinese medicine, it has no facial features and expressions, but can "speak" with movements, which is a small craft made of four flavors of Chinese medicine sticking.
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According to legend, in a medicine shop in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, a fellow was severely criticized by Mr. Accounting Office, and he was very angry. At night, when he was sorting out the cicadas, he took local materials and glued the Chinese medicinal materials together with white squids to form an image of a fox that resembled Mr. Accounting Room, so as to vent out - the world's first hairy monkey was born.
Although the monkey originated in Beijing, it took root in Tianjin. Tianjin craft monkey was selected as a representative item of Tianjin municipal intangible cultural heritage in 2017, Ren Jinsheng is the inheritor of Tianjin craft monkey, full-time monkey for more than 20 years. In Ren Jinsheng's works, the epitome of life in Tianjin's old city is vividly displayed through the little hairy monkey.
Since the day of its birth, the monkey has been inseparable from the customs of the city. Each group of works shows a miniature world. At that time, Lao She's wife, Ms. Hu Jiqing, once described the monkey as follows: "Half an inch of foxes sacrificed to Kyoto, vividly painting customs."
The master gave the monkeys a human soul and let them participate in the fireworks of the world. Human-like monkeys walk their children, play chess, read books, dance, sell candy piles, make dumplings, play tricks and sell art... Omnipotent, omnipresent, recording the state of the world.
The reason why the woolly monkey with simple materials is vivid, the focus is on the dynamic transmission of the monkey shape. The difficulty is not to make the monkey itself, but to set it up. "Three points of monkeys, seven points of props", this is the truth. Most of the prop scenes in the monkey's works are made of Chinese medicine or daily necessities, such as making top hats with shoelaces and buttonholes.
The hairy monkey is a unique folk culture in China, which has certain cultural value for the study of social history and folk customs. With the development of the times, many handicrafts have disappeared into history, but the monkey has remained, active in people's lives, vividly recording scenes.
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