The 180-year-old Clay Figurine Zhang School was created by Zhang Mingshan in North China's Tianjin. People liked his clay figurines so much that they nicknamed Zhang "Clay Figurine Zhang," hence the ...

When he was 13 years old, Rithy Panh lost nearly everything in the jungles of Cambodia. After his family’s house in the city was burned to the ground, Panh’s father stopped eating and died. His mother ...

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Clay statues are a traditional type of toy in Vietnam and popular during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lunar New Year (Tet). They are usually figurines of animals, like turtles and birds, or people ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around 400 B.C. The level of realism, both in the facial features and movement, ...

NANJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A new chain of coffee shops has sprung up in the city of Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, themed on the ancient Huishan clay figurine culture -- with a few modern ...

They have been living in the world for more than 600 years. They are short, never eat or drink and never speak. But they lead a quiet peaceful life at the foot of Huishan Mountain, in the southeastern ...