History and Origin of Sugar Painting

Sugar painting is a traditional folk handicraft, using sugar as the material for modeling. The tools used are only a spoon and a shovel, and the sugar is usually red and white sugar plus a little caramel boiled on a stove with a warm fire and boiled until it can be used for casting and modeling.

According to research, sugar painting originated in the Ming Dynasty "sugar prime minister". The Qing Dynasty novelist Chu Renwu's "Jian gourd supplement collection" in the Ming custom every new sacrifice to the gods, "melting on sugar", printing and casting into a variety of animals and characters as a sacrifice, the casting of characters "gowns and wattles Xuan Aung", just like a civil servant and military generals, so it was jokingly called "sugar chancellor". Sugar Prime Minister".