How to make a candy blower?

Blowing sugar man is an industry in the old capital, vendors shoulder picks to walk the streets, picking one end of a rectangular cabinet with a shelf, a semi-circular cabinet below the opening of the wooden cage, there is a small charcoal stove, the stove has a large spoon, the middle of the sugar filled with diluted sugar (said to be maltose melting income). The wooden frame is divided into two layers, each layer has a lot of small jacks, in order to insert the sugar man. This plaything good-looking, fun, play after you can also eat, the general children like, see the children can not go, not pestering adults to buy, is to run home to ask for money, really no money also refused to leave, staring at these sugar people. Some children want to be quick, so they pay for a ready-made one; some specify the shape and ask for a ready-made one. At this time, the vendor will use a small spatula to take a little hot sugar, put on the talcum powdered hand rubbing, and then mouth a section of the mouth, to be blown bubbles, and then quickly placed in the talcum powder coated wooden mold, blowing, after a while, open the wooden mold, the desired sugar man will be blown good. Then use one end of the reed stick to dip some sugar thin paste on the sugar man, it is finished. Sugar people have various shapes, what deer, goldfish, rats, lanterns, etc., the most popular with the children is the Sun Monkey. Sun monkey after the monkey is done, to knock a small hole in the back of the monkey pouring some sugar, and then in the monkey buttocks tied a small hole, so that the syrup slowly flow out, below with a small bowl of rice followed by a small bowl of rice spoon to scoop the bowl of sugar to eat, until the thin flow of sugar or cooled solidified, it is even the sugar man monkey as well as the sugar bowl, spoon a piece to eat. This set of play is called Monkey Laxi, the most popular with the children, but the price is more expensive than other candy people. I heard the old man say, in the early years, there are street blowing candy man, in order to make business, candy man can not use money to buy, but with toothpaste skin for. Two tubes of toothpaste skin can be exchanged for a monkey or other small candy man. This is quite popular with the children, often small children do not use up the home of the toothpaste squeezed out of the toothpaste skin to exchange for candy people to eat, even if they are beaten also feel sweet. I think this is one of the rare benefits of a planned economy, but unfortunately now the economic development, toothpaste skin is not so scarce. Now, I'm afraid that many old people can only throw to the garbage pile of toothpaste skin to report a bitter smile. The ancestor of the sugar blowers was Liu Bowen. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to pass on his throne from generation to generation, built the "Pavilion of Meritorious Officials" and burned them. Liu Bowen escaped by chance, was a pick sugar stretcher of the old man saved, the two switched clothes, from then on Liu Bowen incognito, every day to pick the sugar man stretcher for rags. In the process of selling sugar, Liu Bowen creatively soften the sugar heating to make a variety of sugar man, there are chickens and puppies and so on, very cute, children compete to buy. On the way, many people asked Liu Bowen to teach blowing sugar figures, Liu taught them one by one, so the craft was passed on to ten, ten passed on to a hundred, passed to the present is said to have a history of more than 600 years. Now I guess there are no more people blowing sugar figures as a meal craft work. I hope that sugar blowing and paper-cutting, New Year's paintings, clay play and other things as a traditional culture and art, can be people's attention, can be inherited and carry forward their, these ancient traditional crafts to preserve and pass on.