Attractions
Flour Sculpture
Mian Su (Flour Sculpture), namely the Dough Doll, is made of glutinous rice flour and dyes and antiseptics of different colors. Only by using fingers and simple tools such as, knives, combs, and bamboo needles, the lifelike sculptures are shaped.
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Origin
Chinese people use flour to make many different kinds of food - noodles, steamed bread, and dumplings. Do you know that flour can also be made into sculptures? Hundreds of years ago, people in Shanxi province used their artistic talents in the daily life and created the distinctive folk art of flour sculpture.
In North China's Shanxi province, flour is a main material for the food, and there are more than a hundred types of food made from flour in the area. While making food, people hundreds of years ago tried to make it beautiful, as well as delicious. They made the steamed bread or other kinds of cake into different shapes. And these cakes and breads are the so-called "flour sculpture" today.
