Brief introduction of Tianmen sugar plastic

Tianmen sugar carving is a traditional handicraft of Han nationality in Hubei. Sugar carving, tracing back to the source, has long been recorded in ancient books of Tang and Song Dynasties as a "sugar sacrifice", and sugar carving is a sacrifice of Han people. It is also said that Liu Bowen, a strategist of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, faced the enemy's poison bee array, stuck a scarecrow wrapped in sugar and led poison bee away, thus winning. Sugar man was born. The sugar used in ancient sacrifices, through the inheritance and development of Han folk artists in past dynasties, made Tianmen sugar sculpture stand out.