A small piece of syrup in front of her eyes, pulling and pulling on her hand, and then pinching and blowing a few times, a vivid and cute cartoon image "Sugar Man" came out. Look, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics mascot "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong", as well as the "Golden Tiger Xiaochun" Chinese New Year blessing zodiac animals, one by one vivid, has it evoked the sweet memories of your childhood?
The folk artist who can "blow sugar people" is called Wang Chunjing, she said, sugar blowing people are family crafts, but also a kind of folk culture, has been listed as intangible cultural heritage, at present will be this "unique" folk artist has been very rare.
Sugar shaping technology, commonly known as "sugar blowing man" and "sugar painting man", is one of the folk crafts with a long history and a kind of traditional Chinese folk culture. The uniqueness of "Wang's Sugar Sculpture" is that it can make a variety of three-dimensional shapes, integrate the method of face plastic into the sugar sculpture, and make the freehand sugar man works more detailed, common ones are zodiac signs, two dragon play beads, golden rooster xiaoxiao, Fluke Shuangquan, innovative sugar man has snowman, Pikachu, ice pier, snow Rongrong, etc. It also develops long-term preservation of sugar sculpture works for the fragility of sugar people, which greatly improves the collection value of the works.
Wang's sugar shaping technique is precise and rapid, the sugar man shape is both vivid and cute, the color is harmonious and bright, the texture is rich, the meaning of the work is rich, good-looking and delicious, and it is a folk art with rich humanistic feelings and loved by the public.
About the Author
Wang Chunjing, the representative inheritor of Wang's sugar plastic technology of Heilongjiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage, a member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Arts and Crafts Artists Association, a member of the Heilongjiang Folk Writers Association, a rural public welfare volunteer teacher, and one of the few post-90s sugar sculpture female descendants in the country.
At the age of 16, Wang Chunjing began to follow her father to participate in temple fairs, folk culture fairs, and expositions across the country. She insists on keeping the new and striving to be a newcomer of the times who inherits the art of shouyi. Over the years, he has been engaged in the inheritance of sugar plastic skills, and has been committed to the cause of public welfare education for many years, sending traditional cultural sugar plastic skills to poor rural primary schools, institutional kindergartens, and social welfare institutes, and carrying out free open classes on sugar plastic skills. He has won the Chuanxin Award for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Project in the Capital of East Asian Culture, the Bronze Award for the First Folk Art Exposition, and his works have been collected by the Mulan County Museum, and participated in the 2017 CCTV "Dragon Rising" Ice and Snow Spring Festival Gala.
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Source: Harbin News Network
Reporter: Wang Tiejun
Editor: Wang Yue