Clay sculpture with colored drawings of Fengxiang, Shaanxi, originated from the Western Zhou time prior to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), and has been handed down among the people for about 3 thousand years, as one of the oldest kinds of hand-made clay sculpture with the most distinctive national features. According to textual research by experts, the colored drawings are similar to those on the bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou times, and the imago modeling characterized chiefly by flowers, grass, fish, insects, lucky birds and beasts is a trace of the totemism, reproduction worship and gods adoration of ancient China, reflecting the cultural specificity of the totem epoch. They are finely made through dozens of stages from the creation of the original piece to modeling, molding, fine polishing, drawing, line making, coloring, glazing, etc. Because of their vivid, crude, exaggerative, terse, mighty and lovely modeling, their bright red and bright green tints, their flowing lines, and their romantic and miraculous emblazonry, they are highly regarded and greatly liked by people both home and abroad. They can be used as art treasures or tourist souvenirs characteristic of Shaanxi for presenting to friends and relatives, and can also serve as symbols of luck for keeping away evils, protecting the home and adding happiness to the family.

Guan Gong
Guan Gong (The Revered Mr. Guan), a great general of Shuhan in the time of Three Kingdoms (220-280), is regarded by common people of our country as a symbol of "Mars", "Mammon" and "Aesculapius". The clay statue of Guan Gong, while keeping the traditional physical characteristics such as the red face, black bear, blue kerchief, green robe, and the dark dragon katana held in his hand, has been given more vitality, wit and nimbus by the ancient folk techniques, thus, looks like a great hero all the more, whose verve is displayed to a greater degree.