是先有阿福还是先有传说，我们不得而知。但大阿福的形象与惠山寺内，建于公元876年的陀罗尼经幢上的结伽趺坐佛像，以及宋代“金莲桥”上“缠枝牡丹间化生”图案中的童子像，是那么的想象。   中国工艺美术大师　喻湘莲：因为大阿福最早是作为神供在那里的，因为它是避邪。有个传说故事，年它是白天吃太阳，晚上吃月亮，它在玩太阳和月亮，它把人搅乱了，人的生活就不安宁了。但是阿福又把年征服掉了，它就把它抱在手中，听阿宝福的话了。这样生活就安宁了，所以大家希望自己生活过得安宁。随着时代的变迁，现在又把阿福的形象变成小朋友的形象了，希望自己小孩子有神气。有种历史的演变过程在里面，慢慢演变到现在变成吉祥物。

    早期大阿福的造型，都是大耳朵的端正坐姿，面容带着佛门的慈悲和吉祥，他头上的牡丹花、胸前的长命锁、怀中的大青狮、脚上的朝靴分别代表了宝贵、长寿、避邪和少年登科等吉祥含意。   阿福的造型圆润丰满，舍去了许多形体上的枝节，整个作品不见棱角，饱满丰腴。表面起伏不论大小，一律用弧线完成。造型的圆润精细，为惠山泥人增添了一分江南风韵。这种圆与浮雕相结合的造型奠定了惠山泥人的基本风格。

    清华大学美术学院副教授 邹文：大阿福据说是造型来自于一个神话传说，说在江南那一带有一对一雌一雄的两个神人，像神仙一样的，他们有一种魅力，这魅力说来特别中国化，就是他不是很刚勇的那种很神怪的东西，他是很阴柔的一种东西，就是他一笑，敌人就会被他笑倒，倒在自己的怀抱里头任自己吞食。所以，他那种笑里头就含着很强的中国文化色彩。他就具有一种宽容和一种大度，一种气象，它对敌人的这种压制它是建立在敌人归顺自己，而不必牺牲他的生命。大阿福他一般笑容可掬，但是那后边是一种征服。

    几百年来，阿福那天真可爱，充满童趣的形象，一直深受中国老百姓的喜爱。随着时代的变迁，阿福的形象也不尽相同。但基本造型都是一个或一对胖娃娃。身穿五福袄，怀抱大青狮，显得文静中有威武，端庄中又带憨厚，从内容到形式都紧扣“福”字的主题。他那胖墩墩、笑眯眯的形象，随着艺人们赋予他的血肉和神韵，走进了千家万户，带给人们吉祥、如意和幸福。  　

Surgery appreciation and collection value ; another as clay figurine , plaster craft , mass production using molds , large and cheap .

In Huishan clay figurines , people are most familiar , most people love is also big Fu Huishan , brought big -Fu , Huishan still circulating in this folklore . In the long ago , wild beasts Huishan area , endangering children . Man called " sand orphan " children , fought the beast , people from harm . To commemorate the " sand orphan " , people used clay shaped Huishan brave " sand baby "image . Later, ancient artists to create continuous process , the people entrusted with the artistic image of the longing for a better life , they survived in people's minds .

Is it a fools come before the legends , we do not know . But the image of Fu and Hui Shansi , the built in AD 876 on the year end Dharani Pillar Column gamma Fuzuo Buddha , and Song " golden lotus Bridge " on " inter- chemical and biological Interlocking Peony " pattern in the boy as it is Then imagine.

China Arts and Crafts master Yuxiang Lian : Because the first is as big fools for God there , because it is evil . Have legends , it is the day to eat in the sun , the moon at night to eat , play it in the sun and the moon , it upset the people , and people's life is not a peace . But Fu conquered lost again , it took hold in its hands , listen to the words of the A Baofu . This life is peace , so we want to live with peace . With the changing times , and now again the image of Fu into the image of children , and hope that their children with dignity. A kind of evolution of history in it, slowly evolved to now become the mascot .

Early Fu shape , sitting upright ears are large , face with Buddhist compassion and good fortune, the peony flower on his head , chest longevity lock , big arms, Leo , feet towards Boots represent a valuable , long life , evil and juvenile Corrections and other auspicious meaning .

Fu plump round shape , discarding a lot of body on the side , the whole works not see edges and corners , full of plump . Surface fluctuations , large or small , should be completed with the arc . Rounded shape of fine , clay figurines to add a sub- Huishan Southern charm . This combination of circular shape with relief laid the basic style of Huishan Clay Figurines .

Tsinghua University, Associate Professor Zou : Large -Fu is said to form a myth from the legend that in the south which one to one female , one male with two of God , the same as the gods , they have a charm, this charm that To particular China , is that he is not quite as Cases of the kind of thing is supernatural , he is a very feminine thing , is his smile , his enemies will be rolling on , back in his office inside the arms of his swallow . So he kind of laughed inside his mouth very strong on color in Chinese culture . He has a tolerance and a kind of generosity , a kind of weather, it is the enemy of this suppression of enemy allegiance based on their own without having to sacrifice his life. Tai Fu He usually smiling , but behind it is a conquest .