Spoon for pen, sugar for ink refers to which traditional New Year's custom

Sugar painting is a kind of folk traditional handicraft, popular in the northern region of China (not limited to Old Beijing, sugar painters around the world have their own characteristics), a kind of handicraft business.

Sugar painting, as its name suggests, is a painting made of sugar, which is also sugar and painting, can be seen and eaten. The Chinese folk saying "pouring sugar man er" "pouring sugar cake er" or "sugar lamp shadow er".

The person who does the sugar is not a draft, the draft is all in his mind. Do sugar paintings must have a good idea of what to do while hot, they draw on the characteristics of traditional shadow production and carving techniques, the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac call to come, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and beasts, with the wisps of sugar sprinkles, it is vividly presented in front of you, and then stick a bamboo stick while hot, it's a great success.