Chinese Folk Dough Art Research

The dough art is a kind of modelling art using eatable flour as material and special tool sometimes. It was derivated and developed from the long history of Chinese flour-food customs. In folks it is named as decorated steam-bread. It has desolved into folks' daily life due to its drawing on local materials and easy grasping. Differ from the ordinary food sculpture, flower sculpture on dinning table, people care more about the giving etiquette, this is the tie of their friendship. That's why it is also called etiquetted dough. It is the carrier of the tranditional views of Chinese folds, and it's also the reflection of ancient Chinese philosophical views. Today,dough art is gaining more and more attention just because its modesty and heavy country flavor...