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Reporter Xu Shanshan.
When the dough meets the "magician", what kind of sparks will collide?
Making steamed buns, steaming steamed buns, and eating steamed buns is a very common thing in the eyes of many people. At the Shandong Health and Filial Piety Source Smart Community Service Center in Xuegong Community, Xuegong Street, Linzi District, the staff made the steamed buns into "flowers" with a pair of skillful hands. These buns come in a variety of shapes: lifelike noodle fish and longevity peaches, lucky bags, wadang, tiger head shoes, delicate "Ultraman" and "Peppa Pig".
Flower buns, as the name suggests, are buns made of various shapes and colors. Flower bun, also known as dough molding, dough flower, gift bun, flower cake, etc. Flower bun has a long history, carrying a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development, in addition to edibility, there is also a strong ornamentality. Its shape is exquisite and chic, representing people's good wishes for a happy life.
Snow Palace Flower Bun is a public welfare brand of helping the elderly and the disabled in the Snow Palace community, aiming to provide a platform for retired women and mothers of disabled children in the community.
The flower bun birthday cake they make is very popular, and it is composed of colorful peonies, red carp, yellow gourds, bright red "longevity" characters, and cranes with wings ready to fly, which are colorful and lifelike. Flower buns are inseparable from vegetables, such as pumpkin, spinach, and many fruits as raw materials, beaten into juice and noodles, mixed into steamed buns, which are more nutritious and healthy, without a little pigment, and the elderly and children like it.
Wadang buns are also very distinctive, and they are made according to the idea of Ziwadang. The tree pattern in the Qi tile, as the main motif and main pattern of the Qi tile decoration, is an auspicious pattern with multiple meanings such as praying for life and blessing, protecting the country and blessing the people, and the longevity of the community. And the writing tiles of Qi are often some auspicious words. The staff used different colors of dough to make Wadang flower buns full of culture and beautiful meanings, which were deeply loved by residents.
In the making of flower buns, kneading dough is definitely a veritable physical work, and you must not be lazy until the dough is cut and there are no air holes. The whole process requires patience and calmness, not rush or impatience. In addition to kneading, there are then cutting, pinching, kneading, picking, pressing, rubbing, dialing, pressing, etc., followed by cutting dates, jujubes and inlaid beans.
Then it is time to start steaming, which is more particular. If the fire is too large, the steamed buns tend to crack easilyIf the fire is too small, the flower bun is not easy to cook.
After the bun is steamed, it's time to color. Don't underestimate this small link, the color is also picky, pay attention to pretty, the whole process is attentive, laborious and time-consuming. No one can succeed casually, and this is true for people, and the same is true for making flower buns.
Flower buns are not only pleasing to the eye, delicious and beautiful, but also more of the fusion of the beautiful wishes, pious blessings and longing for life of flower bun artists, and people use flower buns to express their love for a better life.