Preserving the past to enrich the future

"I used to prefer not to taxidermy ordinary animals because they are common, but as I'm getting old, I hope to do as many as I can," he adds.

According to Tang Shimin, making a stuffed animal starts with skillfully dissecting the animal before using a wood and metal "skeleton" to shape the skin and filling it with straw, cotton and paper scraps using his family's unique "stuffing method".

Then they need to sew and stitch the animal's fur tightly. In this way, with the right technique, taxidermy can be preserved for decades, or even hundreds of years.