Have you ever tasted or perhaps heard of sugar painting? As fewer people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is devoted to(keep) the art of sugar painting alive.
Li workeda miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned to housing decoration until he(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really hadinterest in.
Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young,he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could have varieties of sugar paintings(make) with melted brown or white sugar. A craftsman(careful) paints animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup (糖浆). What appears is a piece of sugar art when the sugar(cool) down.
