Origin of Candyman Blowing

According to legend, the ancestor of the candy blower was Liu Bo Wen, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the craft has been passed down to the present for more than 600 years. However, it is also believed that the craft existed during the Song Dynasty, when it was known as "theater candy".

Traditional candy blowers traveled the streets with a shoulder pick, a cupboard, a stove and a spoon. Of course, there are also some bamboo sticks. These guys and gals a set, any place is his stage. Raw materials are said to be cane sugar and maltose melted by heating.

Doing so, the artist with a small spatula to take a little hot sugar, put on the talcum powdered hands and rubbed, and then a section of the mouth, to be blown bubbles, pulled into a variety of images, and then use the sugar on the eyes, pulling out the decorative threads and so on.

Now "blowing candy man", in fact, blowing out of the "human" shape is very little, most of the fruit for a variety of animals and plants, because most of the customers are children, especially animal shapes are more popular with their favorite.

The craft, the tool is not a secret, the secret lies in the blow. It is the blowing that is the key factor.

Of course, nowadays there are fewer candy people to eat, mainly for the nature of the show. So, candy blowing has evolved from eating to performing, and has been passed down as an art.

This non-genetic artist is making a zucchini for this little kid, look at the kid's eyes, very cute, very expectant look.

The zucchini has already been molded, but the NGTs still don't dare to slow down.

While blowing, he picks up a bamboo skewer and dips it in a bit of sugar.

The bamboo stick goes through the zucchini.

Threading the bamboo stick is not so simple.

Done.