[Explanation] Jiangxi has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times, known as the "granary in the south of the Yangtze River", and has a profound food culture.
In the picture you see, the exquisite cakes are being made with bamboo sticks, stamps, scissors and other tools, which are traditional handmade desserts "painted rice grains" using rice, glutinous rice and other grains as raw materials.
[Same period] Zhan Jianhua, the inheritor of Jiangxi painting rice valley handicraft skills
Because Jiangxi is a large grain-producing province, the output of rice in our Jiangxi has always been very high. We Jiangxi people have been thinking of making rice into various products for thousands of years.
This includes our Jiangxi rice noodles.
(Jiangxi) Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to commemorate Xu Zhenjun, on the birthday of Xu Zhenjun every year, the people grind all kinds of rice into powder and make them into chicken and dog shapes to worship him. Of course, it can be eaten after finishing this. of.
[Explanation] Zhan Jianhua, the inheritor of Jiangxi Province's craftsmanship of painting rice grains, introduced to reporters that the traditional production techniques of painting rice grains are based on rice, wheat, beans and other grains as raw materials, using wooden stamps, bamboo sticks, scissors, etc. Tools, after finishing the material selection and preparation, use the methods of kneading, molding, cutting, pasting, etc., to create different exquisite styles.
Due to the high requirements for manual operation, time-consuming and laborious, easy to mold, perishable, and difficult to preserve, etc., and because of the shortage of food in the early days of liberation, it was almost lost. The Tangcun area has retained the custom of making painted rice grains. The local descendants introduced this technique to the school in 1964, which made this folk-making technique passed down.
Today, Jianhua Zhan and his team are improving the skills of painting rice grains, making it a good-looking and delicious healthy food, and making traditional skills more valuable.
[Same period] Zhan Jianhua, the inheritor of Jiangxi painting rice valley handicraft skills
One of the difficulties in this piece of technology is mainly in several pieces. The first is the control of materials. Although the plasticity of a handful of rice in our rice is quite high, it is also difficult to control one of its components, such as moisture, moisture It's sticky when it's high, and once it dries it's hard and hard to shape.
(And) one is how to keep it low in sugar to extend its shelf life.
[Explanation] Song Xiaobing, deputy dean of Jiangxi Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Trade, said in an interview with reporters that the traditional craftsmanship of painting rice grains, with its simple and natural properties of raw materials, not only shows the people's industriousness and skill, but also entrusts people with good weather, The good wishes of Guotai Min'an, as a precious historical and cultural relic integrating folk customs, folk skills and folk art, it is of great significance to rescue the protection and inheritance of the excellent folk traditional skills of painting rice grains.
[Concurrent] Song Xiaobing, Vice President of Jiangxi Vocational and Technical College of Industry and Trade
In the next few years, our academy will vigorously promote this traditional skill, and carry out creative transformation and innovative development of this traditional skill, focusing on four projects, the original traditional skill of painting rice grains, the cultural research of painting rice grains, the painting of rice grains Grain inheritors cultivate and publicize and educate rice grains, set up special classes for work, and invest a certain amount of funds, so that the traditional skills of painting rice grains have become an important carrier of spiritual civilization education for teachers and students in our school.
Reporter Huashan Xu Mengwen reported from Jiangxi Nanchang
Responsible editor: [Yu Xiao]