Four kinds of mobile phone airbag brackets with the elements of eaves tiles, launched by the Rudong Museum. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]

Rudong Museum, located in Rudong county in Nantong city, East China's Jiangsu province, recently launched a series of vibrant and appealing cultural and creative products.

Among them are mobile phone airbag brackets, those can also be refrigerator magnets, whose design are based on the eaves tiles from the Guoqing Temple site in the county, have attracted a lot of attention.

"The eaves tile, a building component that once hung high on the eaves of temples, is not only a practical item for shelter from wind and rain, but also a witness to the fusion of faith, art and life by ancient people," said Zhu Chunxia, deputy director of the Rudong Museum.

Zhu added that they had selected representative lotus patterns, cinnabar lotus patterns, animal face patterns and flower patterns from many eaves tiles to design four kinds of cultural and creative products.

The Guoqing Temple in Rudong has a recorded history stretching back over 1,200 years.

From 2017 to 2019, Nanjing University conducted archaeological excavations on the temple site and over 2,000 cultural relics including porcelain, stone carvings and building components were unearthed, in what were bumper excavation results.