Yan scours libraries looking for new ideas and asks friends to search the Internet. He continues to study folk customs in museums to enrich his knowledge of maohou.

Yan has made the little monkeys the main characters in a huge set, which describes the 72 traditional ways of making a living in old Beijing.

But Yan doesn't want to repeat the same old way of expression that many other folk artists have used.

Instead, he tries to give a fresh meaning to the essence of the cultural meaning of the small figures. "Little maohou is a symbol," Yan said, adding that it's a "carrier of history and culture".

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