The historical significance and value of blowing candy man

The historical significance and value of sugar blowers are as follows:

In folklore, sugar blowers have a long history and culture, and it is a handcraft inherited from generation to generation of artists, so sugar blowers have a profound historical significance. Artists use unique skills to create vivid and richly shaped sugar sculptures with simple colors, which also makes them rich in artistic value.

Craftsmen skillfully combine "blowing" and "molding" together to produce a piece of exquisite, lively and simple, and with strong national characteristics of the sugar people, people can not only eat, but also can be used to watch or play with, not only a material culture, but also a spiritual culture. It is not only a material culture, but also a spiritual culture. At the same time, the protection and inheritance of this intangible cultural heritage, so that the continuation and development of this traditional skills is our urgent task.

Blowing sugar man production process:

Traditional blowing sugar man is the artist to the sugar boiled, the need to use the hollow straw to pick a little bit of sugar, and then blowing on the straw, the sugar is then bulging like a balloon, through the pinch, turn, and other techniques will be molded into a variety of shapes.

Finally, it is picked off with a bamboo stick and molded after cooling. In Huai'an Qingjiangpu District, the sugar blowing is done by heating the sugar to the right temperature, pulling off a lump, kneading it into a ball, flattening it in the palm of the hand, then making a fist, passing the fingers of the other hand through the palm of the hand, stacking the sugar cubes into a tube, and then biting off the top end of the tube so that it can be blown.

In a few moments, it will be blown into a thin skin hollow flat round ball, and then use the dexterity of the technique, pinch out the shape of different flowers, birds, fish and insects, people, some also figure on the color of flowers and greens. The texture of the blown candies is very thin and fragile. The key technology in blowing and pinching the candy man in the effort, the whole process must be practiced, the technique should be accurate, the shape should be simple and vivid.

Modeling to the majority of animals, full-bodied, commonly to the twelve Chinese zodiac as the content, but also Zhang Fei, Guan Gong and other characters of the Three Kingdoms, the Monkey King, Porky Pig and other Journey to the West character modeling. There is also a sugar toy, Huai'an people commonly known as "machine", can be blown, the sound can be loud, can be sharp. In addition to the mouth blowing hand pinch, can also use the mold modeling production rattles, molds for the clay billet carving molding calcined and baked into.

With a lump of sugar blown smaller, take the grain of large hard sugar cubes placed in the inner hollow sugar bubbles, closed with the mold, blown into a cold dry after shaking, the hole sound, very popular with children.