Chinese traditional folk skill blowing sugar

Sugar Blower was an industry in Beijing in the old days, which was called "Sugar Blower" in Beijing dialect. Vendors are walking in the street with a pole on their shoulders. At one end of the pole is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf. There is a semicircular wooden round cage with an opening under the cabinet. There is a small charcoal stove with a big spoon on it and syrup in the middle (it is said that maltose melts).

It is said that the granddaddy of the sugar blower is Liu Bowen. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang built a "hero pavilion" to burn heroes in order to pass on the throne from generation to generation. Liu Bowen got away with it and was saved by an old man with a sugar burden. They changed their clothes. From then on, Liu Bowen was anonymous, carrying a sugar man to rags every day. In the process of selling sugar, Liu Bowen creatively softened sugar and made all kinds of sugar people, such as chickens and puppies, which were so cute that children rushed to buy them. On the way, many people asked Liu Bowen to teach them to blow sugar, and Liu Bowen taught them one by one. As a result, this craft has been passed down from mouth to mouth, and it is said that it has a history of more than 600 years.

Now it is estimated that no one eats sugar blowers as a craft. I hope that as traditional culture and art, things like sugar-blowing people, paper-cutting, New Year pictures and mud play can attract people's attention, and someone can inherit and carry forward these ancient traditional crafts.