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How to make sugar people What kinds of sugar people are there?

1. Making sugar figurines is a folk handicraft art, and the producer should pick one more burden, one is a heating stove, and the other is sugar and tools. Sugar is made by heating sucrose and maltose. Its natural color is brownish yellow, and some of it is made into red or green by adding pigment or pigment. The control of temperature during use is the key. If it is overheated, it will be too thin and easy to deform, and if it is cold, it will be too hard to form. The tools used are very simple, mostly spoon-shaped and shovel-shaped.

2. According to the different production processes, it can be divided into three types: sugar blower, sugar painting machine and sugar forming machine. It is said that there were sugar people in the Song Dynasty, mostly with plane shapes. Just like today's Tang Hua, it is called playing with sugar, and later it is called thick sugar gourd, blowing sugar mapo, swinging thick sugar, sugar suitable for mother, sugar official, sugar pagoda, sugar turtle and so on.