On the Ji'nan Spring Festival cultural temple, the dough figurines "story telling"
Shun Net - Ji'nan daily
Children are busy, the new spring temple fair can not be less. Visiting the temple fair during the Spring Festival is still one of the essential items for many Chinese new year celebrates. For Liu Gang, the master of the face, one month before the Spring Festival, he received the invitation from the sponsor of the temple fair of the new spring culture of Daming Lake. Although this year is only 48 years old, it is Liu Gang's seventeenth year's participation in the Spring Festival fair.
ten years ago, Daming Lake temple fair only had my own kneading dough, surrounded by people in front of me, three stories outside the three floors, and the faces were not enough to sell. There are more and more people doing this business now. There are five or six stalls in the Daming Lake temple fair. Liu Gang said that although the competition was more intense than before, he was very happy to see that the old man who had been kneading dough had been getting more and more attention since he was on the verge of disappearing.
at the temple fair, Liu Gang was one of Liu Gang's most famous works with his own
five or six hours' image of Mu Guiying. (reporter Yang Ning Intern Wei Chengcai photo)
baby put out, there are children passing by pulling their parents around. Under the gaze of several children, in a short time, all the vivid and lifelike faces were made. The energetic Sun Wukong, the gourd gourd gourd, the lovely and lovely machine cat.Amp; hellip.amp; hellip for Liu Gang, the cartoon characters in these animations are the ordinary food, the simple point can be pinched out for 1 minutes, the complex point will be more than 20 minutes, sometimes the scene is really busy, it is made at home. The finished product is taken out and sold. Now it can sell thousands of yuan a day, and the income is good. Liu Gang said with a smile.
my father was also a dough artisan. I used to learn to pinch some gadgets every day, and I also liked it. Liu Gang said that by the time he was 20 years old, his father had taken him to the Shandong Li faction successor Li Fangge as teacher. At that time, he was still working in a factory and was not rich at home. In order to subsidize the family, he often moved a small box out of the house at the time of work and made a few dollars on the side of the road. Liu Gang recalls.
now there are too many toys for children, unlike toys when we were little. The change of times made Liu Gang have a new understanding of kneading dough. Now, apart from attending various folk festivals and exhibitions, he goes to the mass art museum every week to teach children to knead dough. In his own words, he used to take up this business to support his family, but I did not expect to stand on the platform as a teacher.