Sun Yandou, a folk artist in Zoucheng, a county-level city in Linyi, Shandong province, spends four months in creating pig-shaped dough figurines to welcome the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Pig. [Photo by VCG/dzwww.com]

Adorable and lifelike pig-shaped dough figurines created by Sun Yandou, a folk artist in Zoucheng, a county-level city in Linyi, East China's Shandong province. [Photo by VCG/dzwww.com]