Qilu Evening News reporter Xia Mingrui Gu Xunhui
"half inches of Kyoto. White sketch is new and minimally invasive, and the two ingredients are Sheng Ji Zhu. Mrs. Hu Xieqing, a wife of Lao She, once described a traditional craft -- the monkey. The so-called "monkey" is an art form of monkey's posture, movement and expression by means of four kinds of medicinal herbs, namely magnolia, cicada, Bletilla striata and Akebia. Yang Fengyan of Ji'nan is a traditional hairy monkey craftsman. For the hairy monkey, he studied for 36 years, and his hand made hairy monkeys won many awards in size competitions. In January 2017, Yang Fengyan's Ji'nan monkey was awarded the municipal intangible cultural heritage by the Ji'nan Municipal People's government.
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"this hairy monkey, it is made with a few flavors of traditional Chinese medicine. Take the Flos Magnoliae as the body of the monkey, and use the cicada slough to make its head and limbs. Some people also use wood to make hairy monkeys' caps. " Yang Fengyan took the wooden sign in his left hand, and carefully put a magnolia on the wooden sign with his right hand. He fixed his eyes on the cicada slough on his hand and explained slowly. "Magnolia is the stamen of Magnolia in winter, and the cicada slough is the shell that summer cicada takes off."