Mianhua (Huangling Mianhua)

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: Mianhua (Huangling Mianhua)

Applicant: Huangling County, Shaanxi Province

Project No.: 829

Project No.: Ⅶ - 53

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shaanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Huangling County, Shaanxi Province

Protection unit: Huangling County Intangible Cultural Heritage Office (Huangling County Culture and Art Center)

Brief introduction of Huangling flour flower

Applicant: Huangling County, Shaanxi 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.

Huangling County in Shaanxi Province is named after the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. Huangling flour flower is a traditional folk food sculpture popular in this area. Since its appearance, it has been closely linked with the local ritual of the Yellow Emperor. Local people used to use dough to make animals and flowers instead of sacrificial animals. In the local daily production and life, the use of flour flower is more common. Huangling flour flower has complex technology, exquisite production, vivid image and artistic appeal. The colorful Huangling noodles reflect the local people's traditional virtues of worshiping ancestors, heaven and love. From one side, it shows the profound historical and cultural accumulation of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's hometown. As one of the carriers of Huangling's history and culture, Huangling Mianhua has the research value of folklore, sociology, history and many other aspects, which can provide an important reference for the excavation and collation of Huangling's etiquette and custom.