Sugar man, when did it come out and who invented it? Is there a detailed record?

The Tang people came from the Song Dynasty.

It is said that the granddaddy of the sugar blower is Liu Bowen. Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang built a "hero pavilion" to burn heroes in order to pass on the throne from generation to generation. Liu Bowen got away with it and was saved by an old man with a sugar burden. They changed their clothes, and since then, Liu Bowen has remained anonymous, carrying a burden and walking around the streets every day. In the process of selling sugar, Liu Bowen creatively softened sugar and made all kinds of sugar people, such as chickens and puppies, which were so cute that children rushed to buy them. On the way, many people asked Liu Bowen to teach sugar blowers, and Liu Bowen taught them one by one. As a result, this craft has spread widely, and it is said that it has a history of more than 600 years.

Being a sugar man is a traditional handicraft skill of the Han nationality. Producers have to pick one more burden, one is a heating stove, and the other is sugar and tools. Sugar is made by heating sucrose and maltose. Its natural color is brownish yellow, and some of it is made into red or green by adding pigment or pigment. The control of temperature during use is the key. If it is overheated, it will be too thin and easy to deform, and if it is cold, it will be too hard to form. The tools used are very simple, mostly spoon-shaped and shovel-shaped. This sugar man is made of boiled sucrose or maltose into various shapes, including figures, animals, flowers and plants. It is said that there were sugar people in the Song Dynasty, mostly with plane shapes. Just like today's Tang Hua, it is called playing with sugar, and later it is called thick sugar gourd, blowing sugar mapo, swinging thick sugar, sugar suitable for mother, sugar official, sugar pagoda, sugar turtle and so on.