Dragon Boat Clay Work for Dragon Boat Festival

The so-called clay dragon boat is to imitate the shape of a dragon boat with clay, and then make it more real and evocative by coloring and carving. The technique of making a clay dragon boat includes the following steps:

The materials you need to prepare for making a clay dragon boat are: colored clay, scissors, ivory sticks, carving knives, colored paints and so on.

1, the first dark green clay kneaded into a tapered strip

2, and then flattened with a tool

3, and then use scissors to trim into the shape of a rice dumpling leaf

4, with a knife to carve out the rice dumpling leaf stripes

5, the three leaves glued together

6, made into the shape of a boat and put it on the side of the standby, and then take out the white clay!

7, knead four conical glutinous rice dough

8, with color pigments to the glutinous rice dough painted with eyes and eyebrows

9, and then make a small red flag inserted in the rice dumpling leaf boat

10, to the rice dumpling leaf boat with beautiful decorations

production is complete

Make the background of the Dragon Boat Clay and the significance of the

1, background

The two iconic customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are dragon boat racing and eating zongzi. Of course, customs vary from place to place, and some places also hang moxa leaves and calamus on the door or release paper kites.

2, significance

Clay dragon boat is a kind of Dragon Boat Festival folk handicrafts, which not only allows people to better understand the culture of Dragon Boat Festival, but also play people's creative potential, but also exercise their own patience and hands-on ability, so that people pay more attention to the traditional culture of inheritance and innovation, so that we cherish and inherit traditional Chinese culture, and to lay a good foundation for the new era of cultural innovation. Lay a good foundation for the new era of cultural innovation.

After the clay dragon boat is finished, you can use it to decorate your own house, desktop, or give it to your friends and relatives, which contains your good wishes for them, and you can let them experience the process of your production and harvest.