(Video/ Zhang Peiyao, Chen Wei)
In Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province, Pan Dandan, a craftsman, could turn ordinary dough into lifelike artworks in her deft hands like various animals, mythological figures, and folk scenes. Through her fingertips, the millennia-old intangible cultural heritage (ICH) comes to life!
As the fifth-generation ICH inheritor of dough sculpture in Xiaoxian County, Pan innovates themes of dough sculptures while preserving the tradition of this craft, and conveys to society in her own way the voice of a new generation of ICH artisans.