The vendors who sell sugar paintings carry a sugar stretcher with a furnace, a pot, a slate, a shovel, a stool, and a turntable. Their carousel is painted with a circle of small animals, what you turn to, he will use the sugar to draw you an animal, so the sugar painting is also called turning sugar. Master in the production of sugar painting, the refining of brown sugar (or white sugar) placed in a copper scoop heated and melted, and then a copper spoon as a pen, sugar as ink, concentrate on the wrist, in the polished marble board shaking, lifting, pause, put, put away, fast and slow, sometimes high and sometimes low, with the wisps of sugar floating down, such as birds and beasts, birds, insects, fish, mythological figures and other images will be vivid in front of your eyes The production of the sugar man is a folkloric Sugar man is a folk handicraft, and is made on a stretcher with a heating stove at one end and sugar and tools at the other. Sugar is made from heated cane sugar and maltose, and is brownish-yellow in color, while some add pigment or coloring to make it red or green. The control of the heat is crucial, as too much heat will make it too thin and easy to deform, while too much cold will make it too hard to be molded. The tools used are simple, mostly spoon and spatula-shaped.

Candymen are not easy to keep, and in the past, when there was a shortage of desserts, people would eat them after playing with them. Nowadays, people seldom eat them because they are unhygienic. If they are left for a long time, they will turn black and will be destroyed naturally.

In the past, artists used to sell their creations along the streets with a gong, and some carried a disk with flowers, birds, animals and bugs painted on it, and after paying money, they could rotate the pointer on the disk and make something wherever they pointed to in order to attract children. Sugar figures used to be very cheap and were a favorite plaything of children when they were not rich. In the early 1980s, a few cents or a few toothpaste skins could be exchanged for a candy man. Nowadays, children's playthings are more numerous, and the candy man is no longer just something to coax children, but has been emphasized as a folk art. Nowadays, there are fewer artists along the streets, but they can still be found at the temple fairs during the annual festivals in Beijing, where they are sold for a few dollars. Some lots, with a large number of foreign tourists (such as Shichahai's Bar Street), will sell for as much as 10 yuan.

There are three kinds of candies according to their production process: blown candies, painted candies and molded candies.

Face molding is commonly known as "kneading the face". It takes glutinous rice flour as the main material, mixes it into different colors, and shapes various lifelike images with hands and simple tools. Shandong face painting originated in Heze, and has a history of more than three hundred years. In the old society, the face molding artists "only for the sake of making a living, tearfully walking in all directions", picking up the burden and carrying the box, going to towns and villages, doing it in the street, into the moment, loved by the masses, but their works were regarded as a kind of knickknacks, and could not ascend to the hall of elegance. Nowadays, the art of face painting as a precious intangible cultural heritage has been attached importance to the gadgets have entered the hall of art.

Face pinching artists, according to the need to take materials at hand, in the hands of a few pinches, rubbing, kneading, lifting, with a small bamboo knife dexterity point, cutting, carving, scratching, molded into the body, hands, head and face, draped in hair and clothing, in a moment, lifelike artistic image will be out of the hand into. Graceful, beautiful women with flowing dresses, innocent children, as well as a variety of myths, dramas, historical figures in delicate glass frames, it has become a favorite arts and crafts.

Characteristics of the face sculpture

The art of face sculpture is characterized by "a print, two pinches, three inlays, four rolls" (the steps of clay sculpture), as well as "the chest of literature, martial arts, the belly, the old man's back, the waist of the beauty.

Face sculpture small size, easy to carry, and durable, not mold, not cracked, not deformed, not fading, so for travelers love, is a gift to friends and relatives souvenirs. Foreign tourists in the visit to the production of people in the face, are skilled artists, a thousand lifelike figures fell, praised, called the Beijing face sculpture as "China's sculpture".