Folk Art: Clay Figurines(Part Ⅰ)

THE Goddess Nüwa is said to have created human beings by molding men and women out of clay and breathing life into them,making her,in a sense,the first Chinese clay artist.It is a creation myth that can be found in historical manuscripts going back some 2,000 years,and it speaks of Nüwa's loneliness in a world without people.To ease her solitude, she fashioned the human race out of common clay and became the Mother of Humankind.