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Chinese craftswoman devotes to sweet art of sugar painting

January 13, 2023


Abstract : In Linyi City, east China's Shandong Province, Chen Lingling, a sugar painting craftswoman, holds the scoop, drips the sugary liquid and slowly moves her wrist, and then various vivid animals are seen on the board.

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Photo shows Chen Lingling, a sugar painting craftswoman, is being interviewed.

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- In Linyi City, east China's Shandong Province, Chen Lingling, a sugar painting craftswoman, holds the scoop, drips the sugary liquid and slowly moves her wrist, and then various vivid animals are seen on the board.

Sugar painting is an edible art which uses hot liquid sugar to create a variety of figures from famous dramas or operas, or simply animals.

Chen is the fourth generation inheritor of sugar painting, an intangible cultural heritage. She started learning the skills when she was a little girl and decided to live on the sweet business later.

The art has been passed on to Chen's children, who learned to create sugar paintings after school and gradually grasped the skills.

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Photo shows Chen Lingling, a sugar painting craftswoman, is introducing the sugar painting with a sugary basket in her hands.

As more efforts are made to preserve the intangible cultural heritage in China, more and more people are interested in the art of sugar painting. Some people even come from afar to learn the skills from Chen and Chen has been invited to schools to teach students.

"I hope the sugar painting skills can be fostered and developed in the future," Chen said.

(Edited by Li Shimeng with Xinhua Silk Road, lishimeng@xinhua.org)

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