Tan Xianhua, a folk artist in Chongqing works on his original sculptures, which are made from flour and sticky rice dough. [Photo Chongqing Economic Times]
Although flour and sticky rice are already popular ingredients on a Chinese's daily menu, one folk artist from Jiulongpo District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has got one step further and turned flour-and-sticky-rice doughs into wonderful figure art.
Chongqing Economic Times reported on Tuesday that Tan Xianhua, the folk artist, is beginning producing a set of dough-carved historical characters already featured in China's great classic novel Romance of Three Kingdoms.
The artist showed to the newspaper three complete figure sculptures he has just finished.
Dressed in fluttering cloaks, the heroes are so true to life that their wrinkles and whiskers, and even finger nails are plainly visible.
The flour-sticky-rice-made sculptures can be preserved for hundreds of years after they go through a certain antisepsis process, the report said.
