The History of Xianyang Flower Buns

Flower buns, also known as the art of face sculpture, is one of the best in the Xianyang area, which is a treasure of traditional folk art and culture in the Guanzhong region, passed down in the countryside for more than a thousand years, in addition to food, but also has a strong ornamental, but also an important study of the history of the folk of the Xianyang folk, folklore, sculpture, aesthetics and the physical data.

According to legend, there is a custom in Guanzhong area folklore, that is, on New Year's Day, weddings, funerals and other joyous festivals, they all have to pinch and make dough figurines to show their celebrations. Xianyang's flower buns, large grandeur, weighing about 10 pounds, small delicate, weighing about half a couple of dollars, shaped like a grain of beans, as thin as a swimmer, exquisite good-looking, admirable. A long time ago, from the New Year's Eve to the first month of the fifteenth, the countryside can be seen everywhere to send each other the cheerful scene of the buns, in the Guanzhong region of the women are almost everyone is the production of gift mold masters, which is especially older women's skills are even more superb. These peasant women pinch what like what, tiger is a tiger, cat is a cat, and asked to do each of the spirit. Although the still life, but there is a sense of movement, as if alive.

Hamyang buns and life etiquette closely linked, some of the things to say love to support the joys and sorrows of life, some of the rituals, passed down from generation to generation, accumulated habits into custom. A long time ago, the folk in Xianyang, four times and eight festivals to visit friends and relatives, marriage to congratulate the wedding, the birth of a child to Zhi congratulations, funeral and condolences are inseparable from the flower buns. People concentrated their friendship in a small flower bun. According to legend, the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang Festival, rural people almost every family to use flour to make such as figures, animals, flowers, plumes, fruits and other patterns, skillful flower buns, these flower buns not only enrich the atmosphere of the festival, but also increase the strong local characteristics.

The tools for making flower buns are very simple, white flour, scissors, chopper, comb, dates and other things, as long as you master the technology of flour, pinching in accordance with the style, then a vivid image of the surface mold will stand out. Most of the flower buns in Xianyang are made of fine wheat flour, which is made by pinching, kneading, plucking, sticking and other methods, using scissors and combs to do the details and decorations, and then dried after steaming with coloring and pointing, so that the surface of the buns is bright and not easy to be dried and cracked. Commonly used flower buns in a variety of shapes, flying in the air, on the ground, swimming in the water of the strange, ubiquitous.

Thousands of food culture, long years of flower bun love. The flower buns of Xianyang are describing to the world the ancient food culture of Guanzhong land, reflecting the root of the Chinese nation. Chewing this colorful flower buns, it seems to feel the desire and pursuit of happy life of our ancestors, flower buns convey a rich and warm humanity and the desire for a better life, a long and unfailing regional cultural information, showing its unique traditional cultural charm.