As less 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 committed to (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned housing decoration, until he (force) to give that up due to a finger (injure). Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest 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. He soon mastered the skill and could make a variety of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman (normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup（糖浆）. When the sugar cools down,appears is a piece of sugar craft.