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Fuqing sweet potato ball making skills inheritor
Yu Hongmei
See how she uses a pair of skillful hands
Make delicious sweet potato balls
The first time I ate sweet potato balls
I was amazed by it
Fuqing sweet potato ball making technology inheritor Yu Hongmei
The first time I followed my lover to Fuqing, my mother-in-law cooked sweet potato balls for me to eat. At that time, I thought: Wow, how can Fuqing have such a delicious thing.
Because I like sweet potato balls
Yu Hongmei felt that if this craft was lost
Or if it changes its flavor, it feels particularly unfortunate
So she wanted to pass on the craft
We should have been engaged in the application for heritage in 2015, when my lover and I took the most traditional handmade sweet potato balls in Fuqing, and ran around the country, from south to north, for everyone to taste.
subsequently
Yu Hongmei and her husband
Both quit their decent jobs
Put your heart and soul into it
Sweet potato balls making skills to apply for heritage work
We first set up a company, Fujian Zhongdao Development Co., Ltd., to develop and produce and improve on the basis of traditional handicrafts. Because we have a lot of traditional sweet potato balls, it is not suitable for long-distance transportation, so our early research and development also took a lot of time.
Fuqing sweet potato ball making technique
Selected in 2019
Representative project of intangible cultural heritage of Fuqing City
Selected in 2020
Representative project of intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou City
There were plenty of people who helped us along the way. In fact, in the hearts of every Fuqing people, sweet potato balls have their own meaning, many people eat sweet potato pills, especially overseas or fuqing people outside the province eat sweet potato balls, they will remember where their home is, where the roots are.
Choreographer Liu Xuemin photographed Zhou Wei
Edited by He Xiaoli
Reviewed by Chen Zhang, Xie Xiong
Executive Producer Wu Lingfeng Chen Xiaoming
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