Chinese Traditional Culture - Sugar Blower Essay 200 Words

We have a lot of traditional folk culture, such as nursery rhymes, drum lyrics, lantern cakes, and candy blowers. I think the most popular one among children is the candy blower because it is funny and not very common.

Have you ever seen a candy man blowing? I've heard that it appears occasionally in some lively places in Rui'an. I happened to meet one at the "October 23rd" fair in Mayu. In front of a stall, many people were gathered there, as if there was something interesting going on. I squeezed in and saw the twelve Chinese zodiac signs in front of me, including yellow, red and green ones, all of which were crystal clear, exquisite and beautiful. Mom told me that this was the traditional cultural art of blowing candies. Look! The master was concentrating on making the candy man. He took out a piece of sugar from the small pot in front of him and kneaded it into a small hollow ball with both hands. Then from one end of the pull apart into a "small tail", take off the end of the "small tail" in the mouth blowing, small balls in the hands of the master began to get bigger. He blew with his mouth, while using two hands deftly pinched and pinched, not long, a lifelike rooster came out. Then he took a stick and glued it to the rooster. Seeing these lovely candy people, we can not help but fight to buy, heart not to mention how happy!

I heard that the main raw material of "blowing candy man" is maltose, no coloring, yellow is the color of maltose, red is put in the red amaranth juice, green is put in the spinach juice, can be eaten.

The ancestor of the blowing sugar man child is Liu Bowen. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang in order to his throne can be passed on from generation to generation, so he built "meritorious court" burning meritorious officials. Liu Bowen escaped by chance, was a pick sugar stretcher of the old man saved, the two switched clothes, from then on Liu Bowen anonymity, every day picking the stretcher to walk the streets. Many people to Liu Bowen please teaching blowing sugar man, Liu Bowen taught them one by one. Thus, the craft was passed down from generation to generation, and it is said to have a history of more than 600 years.

But nowadays, candy blowers are rare. I was ecstatic when I stumbled upon one once in a while. Once I saw a man drawing a candy man in front of the school, and he was able to draw all kinds of interesting and vivid pictures on the iron plate with only a spoon filled with sugar, which is really amazing! I hope that this "sugar man" craft can continue to be passed on.