How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 144 Sugar painter, dough kneader, novel experience of famous and popular culture!
The sun is shining and the breeze is just right.

Zhao Chen walked in the antique Qingming Shanghe Garden, admiring the surrounding scenery.

In Wasi District, Goulan, there is a folk performance.

An actor wearing a Hanfu and a headscarf holds a torch in his hand, and then suddenly sprays it on the torch, and a raging fire spews out.

This kind of performance existed in the Song Dynasty, but even now, the performance is very shocking.

Zhao Chen's face showed joy, and the netizens in the live broadcast room were also shocked.

Tourists around applauded.

Everyone watched the fire-breathing show excitedly, obviously very satisfied with the arrangement of the scenic spot.

After the flame-breathing performer went down, another sword-swallowing performer came up.

He swallowed the sharp sword upside down from above, and the people watching couldn't help but clenched their fists and looked worried.

It wasn't until he took the long sword out of his mouth that the tourists breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it is difficult to see such performances on large stages or TV stations now, the performances of these strange people in the market will never be without market.

Everyone still likes to watch it.

Especially in such a lively place.

Zhao Chen was amazed.

After a while, the performance ended, Zhao Chen left Goulan Wasi, and went to the front for sightseeing again.

At this time, the sugar painting shop on the side of the road attracted Zhao Chen's attention.

"It's sugar painting. I liked eating sugar painting when I was young."

"This is also a kind of Chinese intangible cultural heritage."

"Moreover, the sugar painting video has also caused some shock abroad. Foreigners who watched the video were shocked by this Chinese food art."

Zhao Chen said as he walked forward.

He came to the shop just as the sugar painter in the shop came out for business.

The sugar painting master knew Zhao Chen, and when he saw Zhao Chen approaching, he immediately greeted him with a smile: "Master Zhao, do you want to eat sugar painting? What kind of shape do you want to eat? As long as you can propose it, I can draw it."

Seeing that the sugar painting master is so confident, Zhao Chen also became interested.

"Come to a dragon." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

In sugar painting, dragon and phoenix are common shapes. Although the difficulty is high, sugar painting masters are often very good at it, and Zhao Chen didn't make things difficult for him.

"no problem."

As he said that, he saw the sugar painter heating the syrup next to him, ready to start painting.

Netizens looked at it intently.

Everyone was attracted by the scene in front of them.

This artistic snack has a unique charm of Chinese culture.

I saw the sugar painter scoop up the sugar juice with a small spoon and pour it quickly on a clean stone slab.

Sugar painting pays attention to speed, accuracy and stability. The sugar juice will take shape as soon as it falls on the slate.

However, the sugar painting master obviously has a plan in mind, and his movements are fast and slow, but they are extraordinarily chic.

After a while, he actually cast a majestic dragon on the stone slab.

Finally, the sugar painter glued the bamboo stick to the dragon, scooped up the sugar painting with a spatula, and handed it to Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen took it with a smile, then scanned the QR code on WeChat to pay.

The shape of this giant dragon is very good, and the production process is also very artistic. Netizens are envious after seeing it.

The traditional Chinese culture exists very well in some invisible places.

[Why does that sugar painting look so delicious! 】

[The main reason is to see its production process, it is actually some sugar, not as delicious as the fudge you bought! 】

[Yes, the main reason is that the production process is very good, if you eat it, you can eat two bites! 】

[The experience is also very good, you can watch it and eat it! 】

Zhao Chen continued to wander while eating sugar paintings.

This trip was more comfortable than he expected.

His experience was extraordinarily fulfilling.

He had just taken two steps, and at this moment, Zhao Chen's expression lit up again.

"I saw something good again, this place is really good!"

Zhao Chen said with emotion.

【Brother Chen found out again? 】

[The things that the master likes are often more artistic! 】

Everyone is also very curious.

The footage of the drone was taken, and netizens saw that what Zhao Chen discovered was a folk clay sculpture - kneading noodles.

The so-called noodle kneading is a craftsman who asks the customer to sit opposite, then takes out a mud ball, and kneads the customer's face bit by bit.

This kind of business is very difficult, and only customers who pinch it vividly are willing to pay.

Therefore, those who can come out to set up stalls are all powerful craftsmen.

Many people were watching in front of the noodle maker's stall.

Zhao Chen is very interested in this strange folk culture.

He walked straight over and sat opposite the stall.

"Master, I'll pinch one." Zhao Chen smiled.

"Okay, okay." The dough kneader picked up a ball of mud and kneaded it into a ball, ready to knead the dough.

The price of pinching a face is 50 yuan, which is a bit expensive, but the experience of pinching one's own face by hand is relatively rare, but it is worth paying.

The drone was filming on it, and many tourists around were watching and took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

"Young man, your face is very good, and you have the appearance of wealth." The dough kneader looked at Zhao Chen's face, and his fingers were ready to knead the dough.

This noodle maker seldom surfs the Internet, so he doesn't know Zhao Chen.

"Master, do you still know facial features?" Zhao Chen asked with a smile.

"In my line of work, there are eight hundred people who have seen it if not one thousand. Everyone's demeanor, eyes, and temperament can be seen at a glance, and there is not much difference."

"A picture is born from the heart. When you grow up to a certain grade, you can see this person's character by looking at his eyes and expression."

"For example, some people are very utilitarian at first glance, and their eyes are a bit thief-like when they speak, but their faces are full of fake smiles."

"There are still people who look very good when they are born in a family, and their eyes are very flat, which shows that they have not suffered too much."

The craftsman is eloquent and eloquent.

What he said is very reasonable. Physiognomy is a traditional craft in China, but now few people understand the content of physiognomy, and they prefer to read stories about psychological micro-expressions.

In fact, the knowledge of face-to-face is much more complicated than micro-expressions.

"Indeed, that's right." Zhao Chen nodded in agreement.

"Master, what else can you see from me?" Zhao Chen asked again.

While quickly kneading the noodles in his hands, the craftsman looked at Zhao Chen's face and said:
"You have standard rich and noble eyebrows, and your face is well-shaped, and it has a kind of nobility. It should be born in a wealthy family. But it doesn't have the sense of distance that a wealthy family gives people, which is very strange."

Hearing what the craftsman said, Zhao Chen just smiled.

The netizens in the live broadcast room were happy.

[This master guessed wrong, wasn't Brother Chen born in a village? 】

【I guess not, it’s just that I lived in that village later on. 】

[I feel right, brother Chen really has a kind of extravagance! 】

[The temperament is too good, there is no way. 】

At this time, the craftsman said:
"Your nobility is not ordinary nobility, and your life is very good, life must be very good."

Hearing what the craftsman said, Zhao Chen replied: "Life is not bad, and I work harder. It's hard to talk about expensive things."

Zhao Chen watched the shaping process of the noodle maker.

The noodle kneader kneads very fast, and repairs it with a carving knife from time to time.

The dough was in his hands, getting closer and closer to Zhao Chen's appearance.

Fifteen minutes later, when the noodle maker handed Zhao Chen's sculpture to him, Zhao Chen also showed appreciation.

This sculpture is so lifelike that it is just like him.But only similar in appearance, the charm is still less, not so vivid.

But in fine arts, including sculpture and painting, it is too difficult to express people's demeanor. Everyone has different expressions and temperaments. It is already very powerful to be able to do this.

"Not bad." Zhao Chen praised.

This sculpture only pinches one head, and the body is a fixed Q-version body, so it looks cute, and it looks better when placed at home.

If it's just one head, it would be a little strange to carry your own head around.

The noodle maker helped Zhao Chen put the sculpture up and put it in a box. Zhao Chen paid the money and continued to wander around the scenic spot with the small gift box.

There are many large-scale performances here.

From time to time, there will be drama performances in Hongqiao Plaza. Bao Gong’s patrol case is used to restore the scene of Bao Gong’s judgment in the form of drama performances. The case is the familiar sheepskin case. Zhang San and Li Si both said that the sheepskin belonged to him. Bao Gong judged who is the owner of the sheepskin with a trick .

On the second floor of the Xuanhe Hall, there is also a performance of royal shadow puppetry. In the Song Dynasty, only the nobles of the Song Dynasty could see the shadow puppetry. Accompanied by beautiful singing, small characters vividly interpret stories on the canvas.

However, now movies and animation have far exceeded the content that shadow puppetry can express, and this kind of national quintessence is more suitable for appreciation as art.

It was almost noon and the weather was getting warmer.

Zhao Chen came to Sifang Garden, where the imperial examination room of the Song Dynasty was restored.

In ancient times, literati studied hard for ten years in cold windows. Once they were selected in the imperial examinations and won the gold list, they would immediately be worth a hundred times and skyrocket.

The imperial examination system allows people at the bottom to quickly see the leap of class.

With the current examination system, even if you study hard and do well in the exam, you are still just an excellent worker.

There is a shop for renting clothes and taking pictures in the imperial examination room, where you can rent long gowns and hats.

Many people put on gowns and hats to take pictures, imagining themselves as the champion.

There is a high platform here for posing, on which props such as pens, inks, paper and inkstones are placed, and there is a sign of the number one scholar on the back.

Netizens are a little envious when they see such a photo-taking experience.

[Brother Chen, change your clothes and go take a picture, how majestic it is to be the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty! 】

[Yes, such photos must be memorable! 】

[If I go there, I will definitely take pictures, who doesn't want to be the champion! 】

[The background of this photo is amazing. Although I rarely take pictures, I still want to take pictures in this kind of scene! 】

Many people urged.

Everyone thinks this background is very good.

The imperial examination room, the clothing of the number one scholar, the title of the gold list, one of the four great happy events in the world.

Zhao Chen looked at the person taking pictures from the side, his expression was calm, and he had no intention of going to take pictures at all.

No. [-]. That's just a wage earner.

(End of this chapter)