The privately-owned Ma Ruote Clay Figurine Museum in Jinxi town, Kunshan, was founded in September 2012 and contains more than 200 works from Ma Ruote and his father Ma Zhiguo.
The water town of Kunshan in the Yangtze River Delta region has abundant fresh lake ingredients, such as fish, river shrimp, water-shield and lotus roots.
Like Christmas Day in the West, it is traditional in China to cook up an enormous feast on Chinese New Year, with dinner tables groaning under the weight of dozens of dishes.