The cloth tiger is a kind of Chinese folk cloth toy. It is a kind of folk handicraft with county features. It is chosen as the representative of the cloth toy, because the tiger have close relation with Chinese folk customers.It is said that long years ago, there were many peach trees on the beautiful hill which were managed by two brothers. The two brothers were very strong and skilled. In order to manage this peach forest well, they tamed the tigers in the hill and ordered them to watch the trees. On the time for harvest, many bad ghosts rushed to the hill to catch the peach with violence. But with the help of tigers, the two brothers killed most of the bas ghosts. Later, the tigers became the king of all animals and the enemies of the bad ghosts. It is just a legend but it reflects the wish of ancient people. The tigers become the king of the animals because tigers are big and strong and on their foreheads, there is a Chinese character ¡°Wang¡±(the king in English). The shapes of the tiger are also appeared in the social life.About 6,000 years ago many tiger-like shapes appeared on the pottery, stone implement and jade article. In the tomb of the Yangshao culture period, the tiger and Chinese dragon were put the two sides of the death. So the tigers take the important place in ancient people¡¯s hearts.The rock pictures in the early days of Han Dynasty we discovered in our county also show us the shapes of the tiger. If you observe them carefully, you will find they are different. Some are steady and peaceful and some are lovely and cute. But they are common in one point that is the shapes of the tiger are handled in different ways such as exaggeration. And this point is also appeared in the cloth tigers. Because different places in China have different customers, so the cloth tigers in different places are different, but they are all on the basic of exaggeration.In modern time, people still like making cloth tigers, because they stand for good wishes that the parents give to their children. The standards of cloth tigers in folk aren¡¯t unified. The women make different shapes of tiger according to the material and their aesthetic.
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The weight of one cloth tiger is less than 1 pound.)
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