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Chinese Folk Art: Dough Figurines

A 4,000-year-old Chinese folk art rarely practiced today, dough figurine is also known as mianhua or miansu in Chinese.
The man who may have created the craft, Zhuge Liang, was military strategist of the state of Shu in the Three Kingdoms era (220-280). According to a local legend, he once tried to organize a crossing of [...]