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]

Sun Yandou, a folk artist in Zoucheng, a county-level city in Linyi, East China's Shandong province, creates many dough figurines in shape of Pigsy (or Zhu Bajie, a character in the ancient Chinese novel Journey to the West) to welcome the upcoming Year of the Pig. [Photo by VCG/dzwww.com]

Adorable 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]