What materials to use to make sugar painting

Materials to be used for sugar painting: sugar, water, vinegar, food coloring, sugar painting tools (including sugar tongs, sugar knives, sugar scissors, sugar boards, etc.).

Sugar painting, is a traditional folk crafts, as the name suggests, is made of sugar painting, it is also sugar and painting, can be seen and eaten. Folk commonly known as "inverted sugar man child", "inverted sugar cake child" or "sugar lamp shadow child". Divided into flat sugar painting and three-dimensional sugar painting two kinds.

The tool used is only a spoon and a shovel, sugar is generally red and white sugar plus a little caramel on the stove with a warm fire simmering, simmering to the time when you can pull the wire that can be used to casting modeling. In drawing the shape, by the artist with a small spoon scooped up the melted sugar, in the stone plate quickly back and forth casting, drawing the shape, the folk artist's hand is the key to modeling.

When the modeling is complete, the sugar painting is then scooped up with a small spatula and stuck on a bamboo stick. Sugar painting is an authentic folk painting, a distinctive market art, and a favorite craft food of the common people. Whether it is a temple fair, or parks and attractions, can be seen everywhere sugar painting stalls.

Sugar painting originated in the Ming Dynasty, "sugar prime minister". Qing Dynasty novelist Chu Renwai's "Jian gourd supplement set" in the Ming custom every new ritual God, "melting on sugar", printing and casting into a variety of animals and characters as a sacrificial offerings, the casting of the characters "gowns and wattles Xuan Aung", just like a civil servant and military generals, so it was jokingly called "sugar Chancellor". Sugar Prime Minister".

The most common "sugar painting" is flat sugar painting. In addition to the plane painting, good artists will be on the marble plate plane "parts" spliced together in different styles of three-dimensional paintings, like a very decorative, people can not bear to eat.

If you want to make a flower basket, the first sugar to make a round sugar cake, and then pour a smaller circle, the use of the two different hot and cold sugar, a mention of the three-dimensional bottom of the basket came out. Then add beams, flowers, etc., the whole basket is no longer a flat sugar painting, but three-dimensional, vivid, colorful.

Sugar painting artists and development:

Although the number of people engaged in sugar painting has declined compared with the past, but nowadays, the charm of sugar painting has gradually gained more and more people's recognition and attention, and the status of the sugar painting artists is also increasingly elevated, and some of them, represented by Cai Shuzuan, have been recognized in various forms.

Cai Shuquan is now the executive director of the Sichuan Folk Literature and Artists Association. Born into a family of Sichuan sugar artists, he has performed sugar painting in major cities in China and in Japan, Germany, Spain and Singapore.

His works and artistic achievements have been publicized and featured in nearly one hundred newspapers, magazines and TV stations at home and abroad, and he has been awarded "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by China Folk Literary and Artistic Artists Association, "First-class Folk Arts and Crafts" by UNESCO, "First-class Folk Arts and Crafts" by Chinese Folk Arts and Crafts Association, and "First-class Folk Arts and Crafts" by Chinese Folk Arts and Crafts Association. He was awarded "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by China Folk Arts and Crafts Association, "First-class Folk Arts and Crafts Artist" by UNESCO and "International Folk Arts and Crafts Artist" by China Folk Arts and Crafts Committee.