"Now let's knead the dough first, and the dough should be placed in the palm of the hand to rub hard, and the air inside will be kneaded out... Panda calves should be chubby, like carrots; the small tail is in the shape of water droplets..." On February 10, in the Thanksgiving Hall of Mengfu in Zoucheng, Sun Yandou, a descendant of zoucheng city's intangible cultural heritage, was teaching his son Sun Yuze and student Zhang Shujia to make the winter Olympic mascot "Ice Pier".
Only to see a few lumps of brightly colored or white flawless grinding clay or kneaded into balls or kneaded into long strips, face knives, clothing knives, plucks, homemade gadgets will be picked up for a while and then put down, Sun Yandou while doing it to teach the children on the spot. The master spoke seriously, the apprentice studied attentively, and in a few moments, a vivid "ice pier" appeared in front of us.
"After the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the ice pier became the 'most beautiful boy' of this Spring Festival. There is a boom on the Internet, and the stores are lined up in long lines, which can be described as 'a pier is difficult to find'. Sun Yandou said with a smile that when he saw the children so hungry, he thought of using his own face sculpting skills to fight with his wife and children, and the whole family pinched the ice pier, which is also a rare Spring Festival memory. I didn't expect to put the pinched ice pier in the circle of friends, and many friends left messages to want. "This fully demonstrates everyone's enthusiasm for the Winter Olympics, and I feel very proud to contribute a little to the promotion of the Winter Olympics."
His son Sun Yuze has been following him since he was 3 years old, and has been studying for 8 years, which is a "little master" with good craftsmanship. "I think the face sculpture is very funny, and I can pinch out a lot of characters and animals that I like. For example, the mascot of the Winter Olympics, the ice pier, I like it, I can pinch out a lot, accompany me and accompany other children who like it. ”
In addition to creating ice piers and snow rongrongs, Sun Yandou also led more than 30 of his students to create many face sculpture works with strong local characteristics, such as Mengfu Little Bookboy, Meng Mu Sanqian, Haoran Zhengyi, Limen Yilu, etc. In his view, intangible cultural heritage needs to be inherited and innovated from generation to generation, and he hopes that Sun's facial sculpture can be carried forward in everyone's learning and promotion.
(Reporting by Wang Haoqi, client reporter of Dazhong Daily, correspondent Gu Mei, Zang Ying, Zhu Lei, Chen Ran)