Essay on folk handicrafts

My motherland is a country with a long history, folk traditional handicrafts are very much, there are cloth tigers, paper-cutting, shadow puppets, carving gourds ...... of which I like the most or the colorful, different forms of the noodle man.

One day in the Spring Festival, my father took me to the temple to visit the temple, a temple into the gate, in front of the eyes of a colorful world of antiques. On both sides of the gate there are vendors selling ancient coins, Chairman Mao's medallion, there are some uncles and aunts with skillful crafts show their masterpieces - paper-cutting, carving gourds, etc., see my eyes confused, dazzled. At this time, I found a lot of people gathered in front, mostly children, I was also very curious, so I went over. I squeezed into the crowd to see, it turned out to be an uncle is kneading noodles! The colorful dumplings were exquisite. There is the Monkey King, Pigsy, Flower Fairy, Nezha ......

The uncle asked me enthusiastically what kind of noodle man I wanted, and I carefully chose Weslie, wanting the uncle to give me the most beautiful one. Uncle with his dexterous hands out of the colorful dough, he was selecting materials, while telling us about the origins of the pinch face: "pinch face of this craft has been handed down for two or three hundred years, and the legend has it and Liu Yong a little bit of a relationship. Lawrence Liu was an official in Beijing, but he was not a Beijinger, his hometown was Shandong Province, since his father became an official before settling down in Beijing, so most of the housekeepers and messengers were brought from his hometown in Shandong Province. In his kitchen, there is a master Wang from Shandong Province who specializes in kneading steamed buns, and the old Wang's hands are really clever. A lump of flour in the hands of kneading and pinching, some of them into a peach, some into a flower, and then on the pot a steam shape does not change at all, to the table a end, attracted the family members of the House of Liu praised ...... "Uncle's wonderful story did not let his hands stop. Only to see his skillful movements, two hands together, gently knead, not long, the head of the Pleasant Goat is pinched, and he set the sharp horns on the head of the goat, and then the five senses and the body pinched, the bell and the limbs pinched, and finally they are combined and inserted in a bamboo stick.

Wow! A living and breathing 'Pleasant Goat' was presented in front of my eyes, my heart was happy, not to mention how happy! I love to take the Weslie home, and found that it is so exquisite, so realistic!

I love my country, love her ancient and interesting traditional culture.