Spoon refers to pen, and candy refers to picture. What kind of custom is it?

The spoon is a pen, and the sugar is a picture, pointing to Tang Hua.

Tang Hua is a traditional folk handicraft, with sugar as the material for modeling. The only tools used are a spoon and a shovel. Sugar is usually brown sugar, white sugar and a little maltose, which is cooked on the stove with warm fire. When it is ready to tie the thread, it can be used for casting.

The most common "Tang Hua" is Tang Hua plane. In addition to plane paintings, skilled artists will also splice plane "parts" on marble slabs to create three-dimensional paintings with different styles, just like an unbearable ornament.

If you want to make a flower basket, first make a round sugar cake with syrup, and then pour a smaller circle. Using the difference between the cold and hot syrup twice, the bottom of the three-dimensional flower basket comes out. Adding beams and flowers, the whole flower basket is no longer a flat Tang Hua, but three-dimensional, vivid and colorful.

According to textual research, Tang Hua originated from "Prime Minister of Sugar" in Ming Dynasty. According to the Supplementary Collection of Jian Xuan, a novelist in Qing Dynasty, Amin custom "melts sugar" and prints various animals and figures as sacrifices for every sacrifice to a god. The cast figure is "gorgeous in robes" and looks like a civilian military commander, so it is nicknamed "Sugar Prime Minister".

There is a poem in Jianxuan Supplementary Collection, which truly records the current situation in Tang Hua at that time: "When the icing is melted, the Prime Minister comes to call and arrange the banquet for the guests, it is not lonely; Su Qin recorded that my words are sweet, and Fu Lin is a population full of honey. The mildew rain is still wet, and the fragrant wind warms the skin; Paper-pasted pavilions are common things. Next year, the achievements of the Tang Dynasty will be paper-pasted, and gradually evolved into today's Tang Hua art.