In my hometown, there is an old man who makes clay figures. He is Grandpa Zhang.
He was wearing an old Chinese tunic suit, an old-fashioned peaked cap, and a dark and weathered face.
Grandpa Zhang often sits under the big willow tree in the village. There is a big wooden box in front of him, with various clay figurines on it, such as "Sun Wukong", "Doraemon" and "Chibi Maruko-chan" ...Everyone is vivid and lifelike. At noon that day, I came to the old man's stall out of curiosity, and I saw the old man looking at the newly completed "little thrush" in a trance. His joy was beyond words. After a while, he dressed the "thrush" in dark brown evening clothes, with a slender mouth on its exquisite face. Although the eyes are made of colored clay, I feel that they reveal light and charm.
In the short few minutes I watched "Huamei", a semi-finished "Zhu Bajie" was already displayed in front of my eyes. I saw Grandpa Zhang holding "Zhu Bajie" in one hand and holding his chin in the other, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, the old man took out some red mud and some black mud, kneaded it left and right, and it turned into a "watermelon". He took out some black mud from the box and carefully packed the "watermelon". Put melon seeds on them, don’t tell me, they look exactly alike. Then the old man put the carefully designed piece of "watermelon" in the hand of "Zhu Bajie". Ha, "Zhu Bajie Eats Watermelon" was finally completed. Look at "Zhu Bajie"'s greedy expression. The onlookers kept making noises of admiration.