[Explanation] The 48-year-old Tibetan craftsman Jiaoba is the non-genetic inheritor of Tsongka dough sculpture art in Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province. He started learning thangka and dough sculpture at the age of 14. In addition to making temple clay sculptures, he also Based on what he has seen and heard, he will create face sculpture artworks that are close to life, such as anti-epidemic heroes, anti-epidemic scene restoration, Qinghai Hualong ramen, plateau farmers and herdsmen, animals and other works.

　　[Explanation] On January 15th, the reporter came to Zhihajia Village, Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province. Jiaoba has a small dough sculpture exhibition hall here. In addition to visitors, he will also create and train here. apprentice.

　　[Contemporaneous] I currently have only four apprentices, and there are few people because dough sculpture is a slow job. I hope to gradually teach them to appreciate the craftsmanship in dough sculpture, instead of just knowing dough making.

　　[Explanation] According to him, a good dough sculpture must not only be beautiful, but also be permanently preserved. This requires high raw materials. In the past, barley noodles used to make dough sculptures would crack and deform in two or three months. Improved, adding white flour with ghee, honey, preservatives and other materials into the pot and steaming for 30 minutes, greatly improving the flexibility of the raw materials.

The dough sculpture works currently produced can be preserved forever.

　　[Live Voice] Today I made a portrait of Academician Zhong Nanshan. I just steamed the dough. Now I want to color the dough. These pigments are made of pure natural minerals.

Now white, red, and yellow are used, and these three colors are mixed together to make the skin color.

　　[Live sound] Before kneading the dough, apply a little ghee on your hands to prevent sticking and coloring.

　　[Explanation] Koba told reporters that making dough sculptures requires not only drawing skills, but also the imagination to transform flat patterns into three-dimensional shapes. Nowadays, many online orders are made based on photos. If you don’t have imagination, do it. The work produced will be very different from the photo.

　　[Explanation] It is understood that it takes a whole day to make only the head of a portrait face sculpture. Not only does it need to repeatedly compare the proportions of the faces of the characters, but also restore details such as expressions and expressions, and sometimes the direction of a hair Can change the degree of restoration of the entire work.

　　[Live Voice] These are the anti-epidemic series. I saw the touching stories of anti-epidemic heroes on TV, and I wanted to express my gratitude and admiration for them through my facial sculpture works.

　　[Explanation] Customizing works according to customer needs is a business opportunity that Jiaoba discovered ten years ago. Customers will send relatives, idols, pets or meaningful photos to Jiaoba to make dough sculptures as a souvenir. The price of each piece ranges from 200 yuan to 800 yuan depending on the size, with an average monthly sales of 8,000 yuan.

　　[Concurrent] I plan to teach local disabled and poor households to make dough sculptures for free to increase their income.

　　[Explanation] Jiaoba said that he plans to open a noodle sculpture cultural experience hall to train more people to learn about noodle sculpture, and at the same time continue to explore and innovate in materials, add plateau characteristics, and reduce costs.

　　(Reported by reporter Zhou Ruichen from Qinghai Hualong)

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]