Mianhua (Dingxiang dough sculpture)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Mianhua (Dingxiang dough sculpture)

Applicant: Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province

Project No.: 829

Project No.: Ⅶ - 53

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Dingxiang Cultural Center

Brief introduction of Mianhua (Dingxiang dough sculpture)

Applicant: Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province

The common name of dough sculpture is huamo, wowowohua and Gaohua, also known as dough sculpture. It is a kind of traditional food sculpture art popular in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other northern regions, and it is also a kind of festival art very close to people's life. The origin of Mianhua is closely related to the traditional folk diet and beliefs and customs. The relics of Tang Dynasty dough sculpture unearthed from Astana tomb in Turpan, Xinjiang, show that this folk art has a long history of development in China. In the northern region, dough sculpture has a deep mass foundation. Every family will make dough according to local customs and practices during traditional festivals. These flour flower products have various forms and different postures, and have many functions, such as offering, viewing and eating. They can also be used as gifts for relatives and friends, and become an important medium of civil society communication. This spontaneous dough sculpture activity fully demonstrates the aesthetic ideal and artistic ability of the people, and makes the cultural tradition contained in the folk customs naturally inherited and highlighted. Different customs and customs all over the country result in the rich expression forms and distinctive regional characteristics of flour flower art. The unique shape and colorful color of flour flower products make the cultural space of traditional festivals beautiful.

Dingxiang dough sculpture, also known as "Dingxiang dough flower", is a traditional food sculpture art popular in Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province. The content of dough sculpture is very rich, including folk stories, opera characters, birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, twelve zodiac animals and so on. Its image is succinct and general, rough and unconstrained, and its exaggerated form is simple and honest, showing a kind of innocent charm and rich in local characteristics. Dingxiang dough sculpture reflects the local people's eating customs and aesthetic taste, and overflows with the simple beauty of folk art. It attracts attention with its rich cultural connotation. Many experts engaged in folk custom and folk art research link Dingxiang dough sculpture with paper-cut, embroidery, carving and other folk art for comprehensive research, so as to explore the origin and origin of Chinese national art Law of development. At present, with the change of social life, Dingxiang dough sculpture has been gradually ignored, facing the danger of death. This precious folk art will be lost if it is not rescued and protected.