Brief Introduction:
Flour model is one of folk traditional handworks in China,it is made by flour and the sticky rice flour as the main material, adding the color, olefin, honey and so on, after dealing with of prevent- ing split and preventing mildew and so on, and finished through nipping, rubbing, and kneading, lifting and so on working procedure. The conventional name is ‘flour people’, it is a folk craftwork buzzed widely in China. Because it is easy to get material, simple and conve- nient to make and close to the life, people like it very much.
Recent years, by the literati arts effect, the contents and forms of the flour model are renew continuously, its artis- tic charm are also moved by many royalties. They ordered at a high price, or as gifts to be given to friends and famili- es, or as furnishings to be displayed on the desk, flour model turns to become more proficient in people’s profe- ssion from the street, thence, its social status is improved for hundredfold, the whole level has a qualitative flight, and its representation means and representation skill are mature and perfect day by day.
Through thousands years sending and management, flour model has ready been one part of Chinese folk arts. Because the most materials of the content are traditional folk story, the proportion of the character sculpt is relatively bigger, it is called flour people, for the kneading style, the Huanghe basin is simple, bold and deep; the Yangtze basin is delicate, intelligence and ingenious. On their way of storing, there are signed and lifted style and boxed style, and people like the boxed style because it is convenient to store and take.
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