甜美的糖画事业

河南 刘同功

张福海是一位生活在天津的糖画艺术传承人，他的糖画丰富多变，是糖画艺术中的精品。

1 In the ancient Guwenhua Street in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Zhang Fuhai slowly stirs a box of sugary liquid, scoops (用勺舀) some out and paints Peppa Pig on a stone board.

2 “The waves and the delicate lines of the pig body need to be done by slowly moving the wrist,”Zhang said as he moved the scoop, slowly dripping the liquid to form the outline.“Whenever there is a turning point,you need to stop a little to make sure the lines flow smoothly.”“I can create almost anything,”Zhang said.“Flowers, birds, fish and bugs,I am familiar with all of them.”

3 Using hot liquid sugar to create a variety of figures from famous dramas or operas, to simple animals, sugar painting is a traditional art that is especially popular among young children in China.

4 Zhang, in his seventies, is an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage in Tianjin's Hongqiao District.The sweet business was inspired by Zhang's father, who was also a sugar painter.“When I was a little boy, the children in the courtyard would beg my father for sugar paintings,”Zhang recalled.

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5 At the age of 9, Zhang began to imitate the flowers and bugs his father painted, and would even try to create sugar paintings himself.“I thought it was fun, but I never expected to become a sugar painter myself.”

6 “The liquid sugar is made of honey and crystal sugar and dries very quickly, so it's necessary to visualize the design first,”he said.Zhang said that while sugar paintings need to be vivid, it is also important to precisely plan the entire structure and the size,as well as the figures' ability to hold themselves together.“The paintings need to be good-looking and solid,”he said.Zhang's paintings are very innovative.So far, he has created close to 200 sugar painting styles, and he updates all the styles every one or two years.

7 “Few young people are interested in learning sugar painting,”Zhang said.“I hope the younger generation can pay more attention to the intangible heritage; it will sweeten their lives,I promise.”

Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

“The liquid sugar is made of honey and crystal sugar and dries very quickly, so it's necessary to visualize the design first,”he said.他说：“糖浆是由蜂蜜和冰糖制成的，干燥得非常快，所以有必要先构思设计。”

【点石成金】本句中，so 连接的两个分句之间是因果关系；在第一个分句中，第二个and连接两个并列的谓语成分。

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turning point 转折点

make sure 确信

be familiar with 对……熟悉

be popular among 受……欢迎

beg sb for 向某人乞求得到……

at the age of 在……岁时

be made of 由……组成

hold...together 把……聚拢起来