Guardians on the roof. - Let's guess a mystery

Each roof sits high, round eyes
Big mouth. Cats don't look like cats and tigers don't look like tigers

Answer: Tile cat 🐱

🐱 Tile cat, a kind of architectural culture in Yunnan, is regarded as the "magic animal of town house". With the changes of The Times, it can no longer be seen in many Yunnan cities, but it can be seen everywhere in some ancient villages of Dali and Lijiang

🐱 Tile cat is a kind of folk handicraft with Yunnan characteristics, which is modeled on a tiger. It is regarded as the auspicious animal for town house, fortune, blessing and disaster relief.

🐱 tile cats, but now tile cats are created and innovative in the hands of folk masters, and constantly integrate new elements to create some tile cats decoration, tile cats pendant decoration, tile cats tea sets (cups, tea pets, teapots, etc.)

🐱 tile cat this is also a good choice of gifts, send a good meaning of blessings ha, and this cute little meow is also one of Yunnan intangible cultural heritage.

Tile cat can be purchased at Dali Weishan 30💰, 50💰 DIY tile cat

Tile cat is a traditional art form originating in Yunnan, which is handmade and fired at high temperatures. It is an intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan. Although the tile cat is named cat, but the tiger in the cat, take the tiger fierce fearless meaning, perched on the roof, to achieve the purpose of town house

It is said that the tile cat can swallow gold and silver, so the mouth is open and the stomach is hollow, so it also has the title of "lucky cat". Today, the tile cat "walks" down from the roof, and the folk culture contained in it has also spread to more distant places.

But now the tile cats in the store are more than one hundred, and the big one is hundreds, if you want to buy a few more to take home and send a few friends, it feels a little expensive.

Inadvertently in the small red book brush to this pottery factory, although simple but let me feel like a heart to inherit the tile cat culture of the factory, so went to, as expected.

🏠 Location: Weishan Shangen Pottery Co., LTD., 8 km from the ancient city, it is recommended to take a taxi, no reservation is required, you can go directly to 🚗

‼ ️ You can buy the finished product directly here or make your own unique tile cat by DIY. It is especially suitable for children to experience it together. There will be professional guidance for production, you don't have to worry about not doing it!

‼ ️ Finished product: 30💰/ PCS (small) 50-80💰/ PCS (large)

‼ ️DIY: 50💰/ person ➕10💰/ person (firing fee)

Unlimited production, it takes time to fire after production, if you can not pick up by yourself then you can express mail home 📦, but you need to pay 15💰 express fee

After the tile cat, I went out from the back door of the factory, p14, the scenery there I think is really beautiful, I particularly like the road, enjoy the scenery along the road, and then to the roadside, if you do not want to go directly at the factory gate taxi can also