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Gourmet skills in national intangible heritage

National intangible food skills include rice plastic, flour plastic and sugar plastic.

1, rice carving: mainly using cooked rice flour balls as the main raw materials, making figures, flowers and birds, animals, dragons and phoenixes by kneading, kneading, carving and dressing up with various colors.

2, dough modeling: it is mainly based on flour as raw material, with the help of some simple tools, hand-kneaded into a variety of lifelike patterns, there are many places of flower cakes, flour flowers, steamed bread, dough kneading people and so on. , is the embodiment of it, at present, dough modeling technology has been included in the national intangible heritage.

3. Sugar carving: also known as sugar blower, Tang Hua, sugar press, etc. In the folk, after maltose is softened by heating, edible red, blue and black pigments are added, and then with the help of some simple tools, patterns are shaped by blowing, pulling, kneading, pulling, kneading, pressing and cutting, and the patterns made are like works of art.

National intangible cultural heritage

Refers to all intangible cultural heritage projects listed in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects approved and published by the State Council. National intangible cultural heritage belongs to ten categories, namely, folk literature, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional drama, folk art, traditional sports, entertainment acrobatics, traditional art, traditional skills, traditional medicine and folk customs.

By the end of 2022, * * * had 1557 national intangible cultural heritage projects, and * * * had 2,433 living national intangible cultural heritage inheritors. There are 42 projects listed in UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, ranking first in the world. The protection of national intangible cultural heritage shall follow the principles of protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, inheritance and development, and adhere to the principles of authenticity and integrity.