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This amazing street artist, Xian entertains pedestrians in China by displaying the incredible sugar sculpture blowing technique which is a traditional folk art where artists blow and pull hot sugar to create three-dimensional figures. A crowd of people has gathered up to enjoy the creative sugar art of talented Xian while he works with caramelized sugar and creates stunning works of art. He first makes a ball of sugar and twirls it in his hands to make fine dough. Then he pulls a very thin piece from the ball of sugar, puts it in his mount and starts to blow air into it like blowing into a straw in order to slowly inflate it. With every blow he takes, he gives detail to the figure, simultaneously pinching and pulling parts of the ball by hand, to produce limbs and various shapes, giving the sculpture both shape and character. The artist works with hot sugar, therefore he needs to be very gentle and soft, while making it look so neat at the same time. When he is finished with the figure, he inserts a wooden stick to hold the figure and makes a final blow to keep it attached. Finally, he puts just a little sugar to keep it all together and make it easy to carry. These figures are mainly purchased for ornamental purposes and not for consumption.

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When you think of blowing candy, the first thing that pops in mind has to be bubble gum, right? Well what if we told you that gum is not the only type of candy you can blow? A street artist in Xian, China entertains pedestrians by displaying an incredible sugar blowing technique where he blows and stretches warm caramel to create stunning <a href="https://rumble.com/v44nwd-santa-claus-collector-with-ho-ho-ho-horde-of-over-4000-figurines-from-life-.html" target="_blank">figurines</a>. An increasingly rare practice, Chinese sugar-blowing resembles glass blowing, with the artist using their mouth to inflate a ball of caramelized sugar, then sculpting and shaping a 3-D figurine out of it.This particular video shows an older gentleman producing a stunningly lifelike dragon figurine in a matter of minutes. It's awesome. Sugar people, as it is called, is a traditional Chinese form of folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create three-dimensional figures. These fragile, plump figures have a distinct brownish-yellow color, usually with yellow or green pigment added. They are mainly purchased for ornamental purposes and not for consumption, due to sanitary concerns. Popular figures include animals such as dragons, roosters and pigs, and such objects machetes and spears. (Wikipedia) Check out 'Write for Travel' for more information about China.