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3rd Taoyuan Top 10 Souvenirs – “Ties with Hakka” 6th Taoyuan Top 10 Souvenirs – “Tung Blossoms on Cloth” (mini blue shirt + tung-blossom brooch) 6th Taoyuan Top 10 Souvenirs – “Ties with Hakka” (floral-print ceramic keepsake) • When Liyang Studio was founded, it focused on passing down the arts of clay sculpture and Chinese knotting. Resin clay, polymer clay, and nylon cord are the materials we work with. Even while teaching, we never stopped creating: the sculpture “Family in Peace” won the Craft Category Prize at the Taoyuan Art Exhibition, and the knotted piece “Summer Mood” received the Excellence Award from the Chinese Knotting Art Association. • The studio sits right next to the Taoyuan Hakka Culture Museum. In recent years, responding to the Hakka Affairs Council’s vision of “deepening culture, revitalizing industry, boosting tourism, and bringing Hakka villages to life,” we have devoted ourselves to turning the tung-blossom image into tangible products. In March 2009 we exhibited more than 100 tung-blossom-inspired works at the museum; the warm public response led us to compile them into a book, which won publication subsidies from the Council as an outstanding publication. Several of these pieces have since been commercialized. Items in the “Love Song of Tung Blossoms” series—compact mirrors, folding mirrors, and business-card cases for office workers, as well as earrings and necklaces beloved by fashionable ladies—are currently selling briskly.