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CCTV Tongliao reported on March 2 that when it comes to steamed buns, most people in life think of one of the staple foods that people usually eat, steaming steamed buns. But when it comes to flower buns, they are not so familiar.
Flower bun, as the name suggests, is made of a variety of shapes and colors of buns, flower buns, also known as noodle flowers, not only edible, but also a kind of well-known folk artwork at home and abroad, showing the ingenuity and artistic imagination of simple and kind peasant women.
The reporter learned that the flower bun is mainly popular in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, among which the flower bun of Shanxi Wenxi is even more famous. On June 7, 2008, the noodle flower (Wenxi flower bun) was approved by the People's Republic of China to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, item number -53.
In life, people will "steam" flower buns during the New Year's holidays, and different flower buns also have different meanings, such as the flower bun pinched into the shape of a cloth bag means that the grain is full and the harvest is harvested every year, and the flower bun pinched into the shape of a fish means that there is more than auspicious celebration every year.
With the development of the times, the production skills and styles of flower buns have gradually spread throughout the country. Ms. Yang Guohui, who lives in Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, is very fond of the craft of making flower buns, and in 2022, Yang Guohui went to a vocational college in Shandong Province to learn how to make flower buns at her own expense. Since then, she has started her entrepreneurial path.
Yang Guohui is making a series of flower buns for the Year of the Dragon (photo by Lu Zhimin from CCTV).
With a pair of small scissors, a pair of chopsticks, and a pair of skillful hands, ordinary dough has become a vivid and different flower bun artwork in the hands of Yang Guohui, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage flower bun making skills project in Kailu County, Tongliao City.
Yang Guohui said: "A single product can only be completed through more than a dozen processes such as ingredients, dough mixing, dough pressing, shaping, and adhesive accessories. The flower bun not only has a dexterous shape, but also does not lose the simplicity of folk art, and all kinds of dough shaped animals have natural expressions, exaggerated movements, and lifelike. ”
The finished product of the Year of the Dragon flower bun made by Yang Guohui (photo by Lu Zhimin from CCTV).
In Yang Guohui's view, each flower bun is a living individual, a unique existence, and she is very careful when making it. In terms of production technology, she blends vegetables, fruits and noodles, adding pumpkin, purple sweet potato, etc., to enrich the color and ensure that the flower bun is healthier and more nutritious.
Carrot bun made by Yang Guohui (photo by Wang Jiadong from CCTV).
Yang Guohui said that she wants to innovate in inheritance and integrate Inner Mongolian elements into her flower bun production, such as grasslands, yurts, cattle and sheep. "I want to combine modern things with traditional techniques, and innovate in terms of patterns and craftsmanship. ”
As the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Kailu County, Yang Guohui has also gone deep into the community and schools many times to teach the skills of making flower buns. "It doesn't matter how much money I make, being able to regain my self-worth is the biggest gain for me to start a business after retirement. Yang Guohui said.
The finished product of Shou Taohua bun made by Guohui (photo by Lu Zhimin from CCTV).
From his initial retirement to engaging in the tourism industry, and then to starting his own business and learning to make flower buns, Yang Guohui used ingenuity and skillful hands to steam out the message of a better life on the table of ordinary people, and also steamed out his own beautiful life.
As a sublimation of steamed bread, flower steamed bun embodies the noodle culture of our country. The production style from birds and animals to flowers, birds, insects and fish combined with modern elements, its style is still changing, I believe that in the near future, the style of flower bun will be more amazing. In the long river of history, the flower bun is a shining cultural symbol, a custom, a belief, and a kind of people's yearning for a better life.
Yang Guohui's fruit series flower bun (photo by Wu Yueli from CCTV).
Nowadays, Hua Bao is no longer just a craft, it describes the ancient food culture in the long years with its unique art, and also reflects the beautiful vision and expectation in people's hearts. Yang Guohui uses his dexterous hands to knead wealth, happiness and the future into this small flower bun, so that the good days are "thriving", the flower bun is "steamed" to bring out the taste of happiness, and the flower bun is "steamed" out of Kailu County's big industry and the road to prosperity.
Producer: Zhu Riling.
Curator: Tian Fengyuan.
Reporter: Wei Quanquan.
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