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Hua Rao is a traditional Chinese edible noodle sculpture, pure handmade, set nutrition, delicious and ornamental in one, is China's intangible cultural heritage. In the Jiaodong area of Shandong Province, steaming flowers and flowers for the New Year is a tradition of ordinary people's homes. In a studio in Jinan's Tianqiao District, 32-year-old Bi Zuogang integrated traditional flowers and flowers into modern elements, showing the innovative thinking of young people through a pair of skillful hands.
"This is the eye of the little tiger, and make a few eyes with a white face to make its eyes look bright and energetic." On December 20, Bi Zuogang was making a small tiger's fancy Chinese pastry. In less than an hour, a cute "little tiger" was ready, with big eyes, a spirited beard, a red tiger head hat on his head, and a rock sugar gourd in his left paw. Such a delicate and year-old "little tiger", all over the body is made of flour, not only exquisite shape, but also can be eaten after steaming. "Because next year is the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar, I repeated the draft and made several tiger-shaped flowers. After doing it, I posted it online and it was very popular with customers. Bi Zuogang put the "little tiger" into the steaming box, while laughing, "Accidentally became a hit, the next day he booked out 150." ”
Bi Zuogang, a 32-year-old from Shanghe, Jinan, chose to study Chinese pastry after graduating from a university in Beijing. In a short period of time, Bi Zuogang has been able to make a variety of flower dumplings, flower dumplings, art cakes and other pastries, and he has also integrated sugar, face sculpture, carving, clay sculpture and other techniques into Chinese pastry, showing a different style from ordinary flower dumplings.
Bi Zuogang's face sculpture work is not so much a flower dumpling and a flower bun as an edible work of art. In addition to the traditional shape suitable for children's 100 days, the elderly to celebrate their birthday, and the new year, the types and shapes of the face sculptures just made by Bi Zuogang are more varied, such as the traditional dragon and phoenix shapes, peacock shapes, peony flowers and other flower shapes, etc., exquisite and realistic, which is really stunning. Bi Zuogang made a small video of the production process and posted it on the Internet, and quickly gained more than 100,000 fans.
A couple of Shanghai couples who saw Bi Zuogang's works from the Internet liked it and wanted Bi Zuogang to make a wedding-themed Chinese noodle as a wedding dessert table. Bi Zuogang made a red-based wedding dessert table with "Phoenix Crown Xia Shuai and Ten Mile Red Makeup", all made of flour, exquisite as a work of art. On the wedding day, this atmospheric and exquisite wedding dessert was once the biggest highlight of the hotel. In addition to decorating other people's weddings, Bi Zuogang also made a two-meter-high face sculpture for his bride, with a pink main tone, a white peacock, a harp symbolizing pure love and other elements, making his lover the happiest bride in the world.
In the past two years, in addition to receiving orders, Bi Zuogang has also trained trainees from all over the country, from post-95s to the elderly. And Bi Zuogang will also teach them this craft without reservation. These trainees returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses, and many of them have opened several branches in the local area.
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