Finding craftsmanship 丨 Spoon is the "post -80s" ingenuity of the pen, the ingenuity of the sweet art

Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Su Rongzhi

The crystal clear golden sugar was poured from the air. The sugar -plastic artist Liu Xiaoqing took the spoon as the pen and the sugar as the ink. It was skilled in the sugar flow rate. In less than a minute, a rabbit jumped on the slate. After cooling, use a small shovel to shovel the rabbit from the slate, and then stick to the bamboo stick. Under the sun, the rabbit sugar draws crystal clear and vivid.

On the evening of July 26, the Hualian Town Night Market in Urumqi City, a sugar painting of 15 yuan, attracted children to choose. Liu Xiaoqing's movement of flowing water when making sugar paintings is a wonderful performance in the eyes of the onlookers, and he is also his proud housekeeping skills.

On the evening of July 26, Liu Xiaoqing was making sugar paintings in Huatian Town Night Market in Urumqi. Pomegranate cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Su Rongzhi Photo

39 -year -old Liu Xiaoqing has been engaged in sugar plastic for 15 years. In June this year, in order to let more people understand the art of sugar, Liu Xiaoqing moved the operating table from the studio to the night market. Considering that sugar painting is easier to make and carry, he chose to make sugar paintings on the night market.

Sugar plastic is a representative project of intangible cultural heritage in my country. It is one of the traditional folk handicrafts. The craftsman uses maltose as the raw material to heat the sugar to soften it, adjust it in red, blue, black and other edible pigments, and can transfer dozens of different colors as needed, and then use scissors, small comb, small knife, etc. Tools and auxiliary materials such as bamboo sheets and starch are shaped by artists blowing, pulling, rubbing, pulling, pulling, pinching, pressing, shearing and other techniques.

On the evening of July 26, Liu Xiaoqing took pictures of the good sugar painting in Huatian Town Night Market in Urumqi. Pomegranate cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Su Rongzhi Photo

Even for Liu Xiaoqing, who has been exposed to sugar and plastic since childhood, it takes a long time to make a pomegranate. "The craftsman will have a hand when you don't get started for 3 days, so I arrange the time very well. At night, I set up a stall for sugar painting. I boiled sugar and plastic works during the day, busy and fulfilling." Liu Xiaoqing said.

Liu Xiaoqing's love for sugar and plastic art will be traced back to childhood. "My mother is a sugar -plastic artist. She made sugar paintings every day for sale. I also want to learn, so I use mud to pinch some fish, insects, birds and beasts. Many people say what I am pinching." Liu Xiaoqing said, as I was older Growth, his interest in sugar plastic is getting stronger.

In 2007, Liu Xiaoqing came to Tianjin and began a long way to learn the art. The first lesson in the master is to boil sugar. The premise of making sugar painting is to boil a pot of sugar. The most important thing for boiling sugar is to master the heat, the fire is slightly larger, the sugar is scorched, and the sugar dilute slowly boiled in low heat can make transparent sugar paintings.

During the daily stirring of sugar, Liu Xiaoqing grinded his impetuousness and studied sugar and plastic art carefully. He will take time to consult some information about sugar painting online and practice his skills.

When practicing three -dimensional sugar painting, Liu Xiaoqing spent 3 days to make a swan, and the master praised him for doing well. However, when Liu Xiaoqing was under the final assembly, the swan sugar plastic was broken due to the unsatisfactory balance of the bracket. Looking at a table of sugar block fragments, he felt frustrated.

"At that time, I wanted to give up, but the master said that if you do sugar and be a man, you have to do your heart every step." Liu Xiaoqing said, since then, he has worked even more. When making sugar plastic, each step concentrates, and does not dare to slack off.

In 2018, Liu Xiaoqing opened a studio in the Creative Industry Cluster of Qifang Street, Urumqi. He boldly innovated and made Xinjiang characteristic fruits such as pomegranate and grapes into sugar plastic. The lively and existing works have been stored for a long time and have been treasured by many tourists.

One of the sugar -plastic works made by Liu Xiaoqing. Photo by Liu Xiaoqing

On the basis of inheriting traditional skills, Liu Xiaoqing innovated and added anime elements to sugar painting. For example, traditional sugar paintings are dominated by the zodiac signs and various weapons. The sugar paintings produced by Liu Xiaoqing have added animated characters such as Pig Page, robotic cats, and even wrote the names of customers with sugar, which is very popular.

Nowadays, as long as you participate in the non -heritent years of customs and traditional cultural exhibitions organized by the New Year, Liu Xiaoqing will always be full of children around him, buying, and learning. "Whenever I see so many people like sugar plastic, I have the confidence to inherit it." Liu Xiaoqing said that he also plans to blow sugar people in the night market and attract customers to join the production, so that more people understand the sugar plastic art. Essence

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