A handsome man, an intangible cultural heritage

Can you imagine that it takes hundreds of processes to look at the back of the exquisite MengMeng doll?

"Thousands of miles away" should be the best description of the dough doll.

The earliest writing of dough figurines is recorded in the Dream of Tokyo in the Southern Song Dynasty, which means "laughing at the molasses in oil noodles is called fruit eating". In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, dough sculptures gradually broke away from practical functions and became folk handicrafts.

And where did the mysterious Zhen Ji doll that appeared at the beginning of A Hundred Hearts and a Hundred Craftsmen come from? This is the work of Tang Yan, a master of arts and crafts in China.

In the past twenty years, Mr. Tang has developed hundreds of China baby models that embody the traditional culture of China, and won the 10th Beijing Gift Design Award.

As for the inspiration of Zhen Ji doll, in her introduction, she said it was the idea of an apprentice from abroad. The phrase "Let more foreigners know about China culture for 5,000 years" by international friends made me speechless and ashamed! ! !

Besides Zhen Ji dolls, Mr. Tang was also a historical figure in Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties. Mr. Tang inspired China Baby to be handed down from generation to generation, and the original source of China Baby that attracted Mr. Tang was attributed to Beijingers.

Another protagonist in this issue is the youngest non-genetic inheritor, Lang Jiazi Mi, the third largest inheritor of the Beijing noodle family.

In 2008, the dough sculpture crafts made by my brother were included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Lang Jiazi has been engaged in this industry for 19 years, and his works have also incorporated elements of the new era;

Many people may not know Mianrenlang. First of all, Mianrenlang is a school of dough sculpture art in Beijing. Founded by Lang Shaoan, it was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.

? Dough sculpture is a technology integrating art, sculpture, clothing, makeup and plastic arts. The production of dough sculpture needs to pay full attention to details and sketch repeatedly. Usually, it takes hundreds of processes to complete a noodle work, among which shaping the special proportion of facial features is the most difficult step to knead the noodle. And shaping also needs to be uniform in thickness.

After reading so much, as a disabled party, I can only say that the greatness of traditional crafts is beyond the competence of ordinary people ~