What is the history of the Sugar Man?

The ancestor of the candy man is Liu Bo Wen. Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to pass on his throne from generation to generation, built the "Pavilion of Merit" and burned the meritorious officials. Liu Bowen escaped by chance, was a pick sugar stretcher of the old man to save, the two switched costumes, since then Liu Bowen incognito, every day picking the stretcher to walk the streets.

In the process of selling sugar, Liu Bowen creatively soften the sugar heat to make a variety of sugar man, there are chickens and puppies and so on, very cute, children scramble to buy. On the way, many people to Liu Bowen please teaching blowing sugar man child, Liu Bowen one by one taught them. So, the craft was passed on to the next generation, and now it is said to have a history of more than 600 years.

Extended information:

"Sugar blowing" is a traditional folk craft, which is said to have existed in the Song Dynasty. It is said to have existed during the Song Dynasty, and was called "theater candy". The raw materials used in "blowing candy man" are mainly caramel boiled by the artists themselves, and the sugar body is coffee-colored. The main raw material for boiling caramel is starch. Artists have their own unique formula and boiling method, the whole process is based on experience to judge, so the accumulated operating experience is very valuable.

Folk "blowing sugar man" artists, they will be heated to the right temperature caramel, pull down a ball, kneaded into a ball, with a small amount of starch on the forefinger pressure a deep pit, tighten the outer mouth, quickly pull out, pull to a certain degree of fineness, violently break the stick, at this time, the stick as if it were a thin tube, and immediately blowing the modeling with the mouth.

The whole process must be practiced hard, the technique should be accurate, the modeling should be simple and vivid. The key technology of blowing sugar man in the blowing and pinching efforts. Sugar maker will first be a small piece of caramel in the palm of the hand to flatten, and then make a fist, with the fingers of the other hand from the palm of the hand through the sugar cube stacked into a tube, in the top end of the tube bite off after you can blow.

The sugar maker puffed up his cheeks, and in a short while blew into a thin skin hollow flat round ball, and then dexterous and versatile techniques, pinched out of different shapes of flowers, birds, fish and insects, people, some also painted with flowers and green colors, deep people's favorite.