Sugar painting, a traditional Chinese folk art, has a history of about 600 years. The maker uses a spoon as a pen to draw everything the sugar.
It is said that Chen Zi'ang, a great poet in the (seven) century——Tang Dynasty, liked to eat brown sugar. But he ate it in special way.
First, he melted (融化) the sugar, then modeled different (shape) of small animals on a clean and smooth table. it cooled down, he picked it up, ate and enjoyed the sugar animals. Later, Chen went to Chang'an, the capital city of Tang Dynasty. It was said he also (bring) this art to the capital. From then on, sugar painting became a lasting craft.
In Qing Dynasty, sugar painting became (popular) than before and its skills were finer too. It (include) flowers and birds, fish and insects, lucky symbols and so on.
Today's sugar painting is more creative in forms. (Cartoon) sugar paintings and 3Dsugar paintings are bringing new life to traditional ones. Cai Shuquan, born in a sugar painting family of Sichuan province, shows sugar painting at home and abroad. So far, he (show) it in Japan, Germany, Spanish, Singapore and many other countries.
