What ancient crafts are disappearing in China?

Take a look at 25 traditional crafts that are disappearing.

Nailing scales

Making scales is a delicate job. In this "catty" between the scale people pay his youth and sweat, fine work, millimeters must be studied, only for the craftsman's share of the commitment. Year after year, the green silk into white hair, the same is that fair, in the scales, but also in the hearts of the people.

Pinching noodles

Flour, scrapers, bamboo baskets, combs, scissors are the basic lines of pinching noodles, dexterous hands to pinch a colorful world, this magical memory brings us back to the wonderful childhood.

Blowing Sugar Technology

Melted into 100 ° C high temperature maltose, by blowing sugar artists to close the mouth and with the colorful sugar into a lifelike small animals. This is a magical art, an ancient art, and a folk craft on the verge of being lost.

Coppersmiths

From the coppersmith boats on the water, to the coppersmiths' burdens on the streets, repairing copper locks, matching copper knobs, making copper wine pots and so on, these businesses have always stayed the same, and all that has changed is the ever-excellent skills. Hammering, furnace melting, filing, carving, drilling, people see the copper incense burner and copper wine pots on the dragon, phoenix, longevity and gods and goddesses so come.

File, grinding scissors

In the old streets and deep alleys, "chow, chow, chow" all the way to "shock the street", a yell "grinding scissors le, clank, kitchen knife." Can be busy bad housewives, have to find a blunt knife, rusty scissors, follow the sound and go.

Popcorn

Remember the popcorn?

An old man carried a stretcher with a gourd-shaped "shell" on one end and a stove and bellows on the other, walking down the street. At times, he would turn rice into white popcorn with a bang. In those days, he was the favorite magician of the children.

Repairing fountain pens

Once upon a time, owning a fountain pen was a symbol of fashion and status, but also a representative of knowledge, use and repair often go hand in hand, in the commodities can not reach today's abundance of the time, the repair of fountain pens for the user is the "equipment to protect".

Wheat straw weaving

Wheat straw folk craft in the Suzhong Lower River region has a long history, our ancestors in the long-term practice of production and life with straw weaving straw hats to shade the sun, weaving straw fan cool, weaving handbags, baskets and contain containers of grains of the utensils for daily necessities, become a symbol of China's early civilization development.

Xinghua sage Ming Dynasty Chancellor Li Chunfang House with straw made of relief mural works have "two dragons grab the pearl", "mantis cicada", "eagle wings", "magpie", "green lion and white elephant" and other self-contained system, is a masterpiece.

Shoemaker

In accordance with a pair of skillful hands to cut out the paper pattern, wax thread in the cone needle under the guidance of the shuttle between the upper and the sole, the cone needle to the forehead as a millstone, the shoe body of the wooden bracket to support the stereotypes in the thousands of hammers after the tap, a pair of shoes set of shoemaker craftsmanship waiting for the owner of the thousands of miles of travel.

Shaved head

With the help of pushers, scrapers, scissors, combs and other simple tools, the master in accordance with the requirements of the guests, ten finger movement, left and right with the tools in turn, up and down, collaboration, half an hour later, from long to short, a new face, ears and nose Shu Shu, exquisite craftsmanship to the people, in fact, is not the whole thing to open the "head"! "difficult.

Fine repair of clocks

Fine repair of clocks and watches as fine as hair, the heart is as quiet as water. Magnifying glass, alcohol lamp, tweezers, and dexterous hands are their weapons, they let the frozen time walk, while they seem to stay outside of time, the small workshop solidified their life picture, witnessed the wandering of time.

Bushel Craft

A handful of fragrant and flexible bushels pass back and forth in the hands of the craftsmen. After such simple yet rhythmic movements, a small, exquisite and practical futon bag, futon basket and so on are displayed in front of you.

Brick carving

Brick carving this complex, ancient craft, in the craftsman's labor, is an art, drills, planes, saws, etc. in the hands of skilled craftsmen like the master's paintbrush, interpretation of the complex depth of the shallow, hollow techniques, so that the characters, flowers, birds and landscapes resurrected in the bricks, with a classical, rustic beauty and elegance.

Playing cotton

Playing cotton is an old craft, although it is not common in the city nowadays, but people over 40 years old will have a clear memory of "playing cotton". With the sound of a string, a piece of flower flying, and finally a pile of cotton pressed into a neat bedding, as if it is a magic trick, so that the children were surprised. In those days, the cotton-popping craftsmen traveled the streets and streets, and their business was overwhelming. But the work of the flower-playing craftsmen was very hard and dusty, and many of them worked in the open air, finding a corner or a shed to open their business. Almost no one wants to engage in this occupation anymore.

Fried noodle cakes

Fried noodle cakes, also called deep-fried noodle cakes with sesame oil, are a kind of Chinese noodle snacks unique in Hongdong County and belong to deep-fried food. Deep-fried deep-fried noodle cakes are made of flour ground from wheat, added with a little salt and seasoning, blended with water and kneaded into noodle blanks, and then rolled into strips. Then the noodles are rolled into strips and arranged in a basin with some rapeseed oil sprinkled on top. When the noodle is in the basin and the elasticity is just right, put the noodle around the hand, stretch it back and forth with the hand, make the thickness uniform, fold the shape, put it into the frying pan, turn it gently with chopsticks, master the fire and deep-fry it into a big handful or a small handful of yellow crispy deep-fried noodle cakes with a golden thread ring.

Old silversmiths

Fire melting is a key process in the traditional craftsmanship of making Huacai gold and silver, with the help of a bent pipe, blowing with the mouth to control the fire and temperature, and blowing to the focus, which is full of children's fun, but it is in the thousands of "blowing" hundred practice. After that, the fire will be blown to the point, a childish gesture.

Mending pots

"Mending pots, mending pots," he yells, as if back in the old days, whose family's iron pots are broken, take them out. The pot mender set up a small stove, pull up the bellows, the iron water, the iron pot of the small hole clean up, hand holding a piece of cloth, cloth put some wood shavings, against the pot of small holes, from the back of the dissolved iron poured into the small holes, the cloth stick a top, a few moments of the pot on the mending good.

Gomer

A simple gabion knife, but the kung fu is very good, you need to cut, saw, cut, cut, pull, pry, weave, weave, cut, grind, these are all technical work. Weave a sieve, exquisite and beautiful, square and round. Weave a cool mat, smooth and delicate, cool and comfortable. Gomer used a pair of skillful hands to dress up our green life.

Blacksmith

"Half a crooked house, a thousand hammers" is a true depiction of the old master blacksmith. An anvil, a few hammers, a few clamping scissors, bellows, furnace is the basic ironmonger's home, will be forged iron, red on the anvil, sledgehammer, hammer turn to hit, a piece of shovels, rakes, sickles, plows, shovels, knives, forks, nails, and other production of life's necessary appliances to build out of it.

Mounting

The splendid and beautiful Chinese paintings are one of the three national treasures of China, which are praised by the world. If there is no framing, its God and its bones can not be fully displayed. Seemingly simple page framing bottom row brush back and forth, light Wan on the board, all penetrate the framer's artistic qualities and the pursuit of beauty.

Wood carving

Wood carving varieties, shallow relief, deep relief, Lou carving, empty carving. The original awkward wood in the hands of craftsmen have vitality, characters, flowers, insects and fish in the wood reborn, the achievement of a elegant tone, profound meaning of the humanities painting.

Arrowhead lace

Files made of hacksaw blades, pads made of sheepskin ash polymer, mold making, knives, turning the wrist, picking, chipping, craftsmen with dexterity and full of the vicissitudes of the hand, arrowheads of the blessing of fortune and wealth, arrowheads of the reality of life on earth.

Tinsmith

"Ding dong dong" melodious rhythm into the streets and alleys, people have to take the incense burner, candlestick, "hot granny", warm wine pots, follow the sound and go. Craftsmen put down their burdens, raise the fire, pull up the bellows, branding the tin water, stand up the mold, in a short while, a seal shape show up, iron point rosin and tin, soldering, scissors, hammers, drills, filing back and forth, a few moments, dragons, tigers, gods and goddesses will be alive in the tin carving.

Carving a seal

Flatten the seal embryo, write the characters, fix it on a tiny clamping bed, and carve it with a knife. As for the yin and yang characters, the official script, all in accordance with the requirements of the customer, how to alternate between pointed and flat knives, all lies in the master's finger control. In the computerized engraving machine has been available for many years, hand-engraved seals are like rare animals that are becoming increasingly rare. Keyboard has made the pen and paper is no longer brilliant, instantly someone will carve a few knives, but how many people can write a variety of fonts, so that people are convinced of the reverse word?