Huishan, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China. Wuxi "Big Afu" series of clay dolls is a masterpiece of Huishan clay dolls, said: ancient mountain lived a pair of humanoid beasts sand children, they are very powerful, the mountain beasts of all kinds of insects as long as to see them smile, that is, bowed down to put into their arms, for them to devour. From then on, both the mountain and the hill could live in peace and happiness. It is said that "The Great Afu" was created to commemorate the achievements of the sand children.

Origin of the Mudman Afu

About the Mudman Afu, there is a local legend: In ancient times, there were four monsters in Mount Huishan, namely, the poisonous dragon, the evil tiger, the stinking soft-shelled turtle and the tricky horse, which harmed the human beings and animals and trampled on the crops, and they did nothing bad. Later, a pair of siblings named Afu entered the mountain and fought with the four monsters, the four monsters were removed, and the siblings also bled too much and left the earth. People made up the image of the two siblings to commemorate them.