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Painting sugar painting vendors selling sugar paintings, picking a sugar stretcher, inside a furnace, a pot, a slate, a shovel, a stool and a turntable. Their carousel is painted with a circle of small animals, you turn to what, he will use the sugar to draw you an animal, so the sugar painting is also called turning sugar. Master in the production of sugar painting, the refining of brown sugar (or white sugar) placed in a copper scoop heated and melted, and then a copper spoon as a pen to sugar liquid as ink, concentrate on the wrist, in the polished marble plate jitter, lift, pause, put, close, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes high and sometimes low, with the wisps of sugar wire floated down, such as birds and beasts, birds, insects, fish, mythological figures and other images will be vivid in front of your eyes to make a man in the sugar production is a kind of folk The production of sugar figures is a folk craft, the production of more than pick a stretcher, one end of the heating stove, the other end of the sugar and tools. Sugar is made from cane sugar and maltose by heating and modulating, and is brownish-yellow in color, while some add pigment or coloring to make it red or green. The control of the heat is crucial, as too much heat will make it too thin and easy to deform, while too much cold will make it too hard to be molded. The tools used are simple, mostly in the shape of spoons and spatulas. Sugar dumplings are not easy to keep, and in the past, when there was a shortage of desserts, people would eat them after playing with them. In the past, when there was a shortage of sweets, they were eaten after playing with them. Nowadays, people seldom eat them because they think they are unhygienic. They will turn black if left for a long time and will be destroyed naturally. In the past, many artists sold candy figures on the streets with a gong, and some of them carried a disk with flowers, birds, animals, and bugs painted on it, and after paying money, they could turn the pointer on the disk and make something wherever they pointed to, so as to attract children. Sugar figures used to be very cheap and were a favorite plaything of children when they were not rich. In the early 1980s, a few cents or a few toothpaste skins could be exchanged for a candy man. Nowadays, children's playthings are more numerous, and the candy man is no longer just something to coax children, but has been emphasized as a folk art. Nowadays, there are fewer artists along the streets, but they can still be found at the temple fairs during the annual festivals in Beijing, where they are sold for a few dollars. In some areas, due to the high number of foreign tourists (e.g. the bar street in Shichahai), they can be sold for as much as 10 yuan. According to their different production processes, they can be divided into three kinds: blowing candy figures, painting candy figures and molding candy figures. Face molding is commonly known as kneading. It takes glutinous rice flour as the main material, mixes it into different colors, and shapes various lifelike images with hands and simple tools. Shandong face molding originated in Heze and has a history of more than three hundred years. In the old society, the face sculpture artists only for the sake of making a living, tearfully going in all directions, picking up the burden and carrying the box, going to the townships and towns, doing in the streets, becoming in the moment, loved by the masses, but their works are regarded as a kind of knick-knacks, which can't be put on the hall of elegance. Nowadays, as a precious intangible cultural heritage, the art of noodle sculpture has been emphasized, and knick-knacks have also entered the hall of art. Pinch noodle artists, according to the need to take materials at hand, in the hands of several pinch, rub, knead, lift, with a small bamboo knife dexterity point, cut, carve, scratch, molded into the body, hands, head and face, draped in hair and clothing, in a moment, lifelike artistic image will be out of the hand into. The graceful, beautiful women with flowing dresses, innocent children, and various mythological stories, dramas, and historical figures are exquisitely framed in glass, and become favorite arts and crafts. Characteristics of the face sculpture of the art of face sculpture is characterized by a print, two pinch, three inlay, four roll (steps of clay sculpture), as well as the chest of Man, the belly of Wu, the old man's back, the waist of the beautiful women. Noodle-shaped small size, easy to carry, and durable, not mildew, not cracked, not deformed, not fading, so for travelers love, is a gift to friends and relatives souvenirs. Foreign tourists visiting the production of noodles, artists are skillful techniques, a thousand lifelike figures by the dumping, praise, called the Beijing face sculpture for China's sculpture.