Composition "China Traditional Culture and Art"

Traditional arts in China are rich and colorful, including paper-cutting, ceramics, Chinese knots, clay figurines, Tang Hua and so on. Among these traditional arts, tanghua is my favorite.

Tang Hua, as its name implies, is a picture made of sugar. I also drew sugar, which is quite edible. People commonly call it "sugar bowl", "sugar bowl" or "sugar lantern shadow". This craft with Sichuan local characteristics has a history of more than 400 years. According to legend, it evolved on the basis of the production skills of the ancient "Sugar Prime Minister".

I remember when I was in kindergarten, there were artists selling Tang Hua at the kindergarten gate. People who sell Tang Hua are always surrounded by people, and people are attracted by this wonderful art. I also asked grandpa to buy me a Tang Hua. The old man selling Tang Hua first took out a roulette wheel with a pointer on it. Some animal patterns were drawn around the pointer. The old man asked me to move the pointer myself, and the old man would make me a pattern when the pointer turned to which pattern. I changed it to a butterfly pattern. I saw that the grandfather who made Tang Hua used a spoon as a "pen" and syrup as an "ink", and quickly drew the outline of syrup on the graphite board in one go. In less than two minutes, a dancing sugar butterfly jumped off the paper under Grandpa's pen. At this time, grandpa put a slender bamboo stick on the central axis of the pattern. When the syrup was completely cooled, Grandpa carefully scooped up Tang Hua with a shovel and handed it to me. Grandpa painted Tang Hua vividly. Tang Hua, a golden and transparent butterfly in my hand, walked out of the crowd carefully in everyone's envious eyes, unwilling to eat this beautiful work of art for a long time.

But now, few artists sell Tang Hua in the street. Mom and Dad say that fewer and fewer people can become Tang Hua now. I really hope that more and more people will learn this traditional art, the bright pearl of China traditional art will be handed down from generation to generation!