Three generations of craftsmanship kneaded into Beijing’s dough figurines

Three generations of one Beijing family, and one ball of dough. The grandfather, Lang Shao'an, pinched the dramas of the street into miniature — opera heroes, peddlers, passers-by. His son worked at fingertip scale. Now Lang Jiaziyu, the third generation, carries the craft overseas.

What they shape is a skill. What it holds is a regard for ordinary people. What each generation invents is the idiom of its own time — a Chinese hand-gift, made for the world.