What are the artistic features of Huozhou dough sculpture?

Huozhou dough sculpture is exquisite, exquisite in craftsmanship and diverse in style. It is not only a kind of flavored pasta, but also a good gift for relatives and friends, and it is also an artistic treasure to watch. Different festivals and solar terms have their own designs and shapes.

Gordon on New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day's red jujube steamed buns and snake steamed buns, and July 15th's mutton steamed buns, pig heads, wheat products and needle and thread; Children's full moon buns, old people's birthday peach buns; There are also people, animals, fruits, classic stories, Chinese zodiac, two dragons playing with pearls, dragons and phoenixes becoming auspicious, magpies climbing plums and so on.

Birds in the sky, animals on the ground, fish in the water, masterpieces and classics have been skillfully processed into exquisite art treasures and become tourism products in Huozhou.

Inheritance and development

Before the Spring Festival, according to the local custom, the peasant women used the fine powder ground by their families to knead the dough products of "bergamot", "full house" and "skillful husband and clever mother" into kittens, dogs, tigers, yutu chickens, ducks, fish frogs, grapes, pomegranates and eggplants to symbolize all the best, long life, rich financial resources, harmony and friendship, and wish all the best.

During the "Cold Food Festival", the dough sculpture used by Huoxian people to pay homage to their ancestors was a "snake plate". Yes, there are also one-headed snakes and two-headed snakes. In the old folk custom, the younger generation ate "snakehead" when offering sacrifices to their ancestors, which means "killing poison and avoiding disaster".

On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Huoxian has the largest variety of dough sculptures. There are pig's head, sheep's head, wheat straw collection, needle and thread laundry, thimble, scissors, needle and thread, cake sitting (that is, shaping a woman sitting on a lotus stand), lion, tiger, fox and so on.

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Historical legends

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the "Begging for Cleverness" Festival. It is said that on this day, women are ingenious when eating dough sculptures such as "needle and thread" and "thimble".

When the baby is full moon, grandma's family will usually make a "bangzi" with a diameter of more than one foot, that is, a round dough circle, and put on the fine-faced plastic of the Chinese zodiac. Some will also have smaller dough figurines in the shape of dragons and phoenixes or tiger heads in the middle, which are called "auspicious dragons and phoenixes" or "tigers to ward off evil spirits". Whoever comes to see the children will cut a piece of "Kun Kun" for people to appreciate.

In the first year of the new wife's arrival, the bride's family will send "mutton steamed bread" to her daughter. In the old society, because of poverty, it was very laborious to send a few "mutton" buns to my daughter. Now that I am rich, I give my daughter dozens or even hundreds of "mutton buns" at a time. Steamed bread has various shapes and meanings. For example, "cattle and sheep" symbolizes the prosperity of six livestock, "wheat straw collection" symbolizes the bumper harvest of grains, and pomegranate is a metaphor for many children and many blessings.

Huozhou dough figurines are simple in shape, rarely decorated and colored, and often only supply red dots and colors.

References:

Linfen Party History Local Records Network-Huozhou Miansu

Baidu encyclopedia-Huozhou dough sculpture