What is the meaning of "Sugar Man"?

Sugar man, is a kind of folk in the past more common a snack, the maker are picking a stretcher, one end of the stove for heating, the other end of the sugar and tools.

Sugar man, a traditional Han Chinese handicraft. Sugar is made from heated cane sugar and maltose, and is brownish-yellow in color, but some add pigment or coloring to make it red or green. The control of the fire is the key to use, too hot will be too thin and easy to deform, cold will be too hard and can not be shaped. According to the different production process, it is divided into: blowing candy man, painting candy man and plastic candy man.

Candymen are not easy to keep, and in the past, when there was a shortage of desserts, people would eat them after playing with them. Nowadays, people think it is very unhygienic and seldom eat it. It will turn black after a long time and will be destroyed naturally. In the past, many artists sold their creations along the streets with gongs, and some carried a disk with flowers, birds, animals and bugs painted on it, and after paying money, they could turn the pointer on the disk and make something wherever they pointed to in order to attract children.

Candy man production process:

1, blowing candy man

"Blowing candy man" is a traditional folk craft, it is said that in the Song Dynasty, when it was known as "theater candy". "Blow sugar man" is mainly used in the raw materials used in the artist's own boiled caramel (also known as sugar), the sugar body is coffee-colored. The main raw material for making caramel is starch. The artists have their own unique recipes and boiling methods, and the whole process is based on experience, so the accumulated operating experience is very valuable.

2, painted sugar man

Painted sugar man, is the folk with sugar to modeling art styles, more circulated in all parts of Sichuan, Zigong area with the most varieties of the most rich in content, the modeling is also the most interesting. Sugar man is painted on a stone plate with sugar syrup. Slate with smooth cold marble, with a layer of anti-sticking oil coated on top. Sugar boiled, with a small spoon scooped up, poured on the stone plate lines, composed of patterns.