In Bo Village, Damo Township, Wei County, Hebei Province, villager Cheng Shichao and his lover are making twist flowers in front of their homes. Cheng Shichao is 51 years old this year, and under the influence of his father, he began to make twist flowers at the age of 16 and has been doing it for 35 years. After getting married, his lover joined him in forming a twisted couple file. Because they make twist flowers that are salty and sweet, they are very popular with locals. Usually, they can sell about 300 pieces a day, and at the price of 5 cents each, they can have about 150 yuan a day.
Cheng Shichao said that after the Spring Festival every year, many people go out to work, and some people can buy tens of yuan of twist flowers, eat them on the road, or take them to give away. At this time, they had to make more than a thousand twist flowers a day, and they could sell more than 600 yuan a day.
In the usual time of partnering, Cheng Shichao is responsible for rubbing twist flowers, that is, making the noodles into twist flowers, and his lover is responsible for frying the twist flowers he has made in oil. The picture shows his lover frying twist flowers in a frying pan, the golden color is the already fried twist flowers, and the those white twist flowers have just been put into the pot and started frying.
This is a twisted flower that has been fried, golden in color, and two for a dollar.
The picture shows Cheng Shichao making twist flowers with his lover, he is responsible for making twist flowers, and his lover is responsible for frying twist flowers.
When making twist flowers, Cheng Shichao's hands seemed to be playing magic, a piece of reconciled noodles, through his ten seconds of waving, it became a twist flower.
After doing twist flowers for so many years, Cheng Shichao has become skilled enough to make four or five twists of noodles every minute. When asked whether there were any contradictions between the couple who had worked together for so many years, they laughed and said that they were busy every day, where there was time to quarrel, and how good it was to be kind.
When Cheng Shichao was making twist flowers, there were often some elderly people and children who came to see and buy some more to go home.
This is a twist flower that Cheng Shichao has just rubbed and has not yet fried in a frying pan. Such a twist, Cheng Shichao can do 5 in a minute.
The picture shows Cheng Shichao doing twist flowers.