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What is a food sculpture?
Food carving (hereinafter referred to as food carving) originated in China earlier. According to historical records, the embryonic form of food carving appeared in the "pre-Qin" period because the level of social productivity at that time was very low, and it was obviously inappropriate to carve food into a plaything for fun. With the improvement of social productivity, there is more than enough food such as grain, and some nobles began to fiddle with food, decorating or polishing it into ornamental handicrafts for appreciation and entertainment, and the prototype of food carving was born. Of course, food carving really became a skill later, through the efforts of skilled craftsmen in past dynasties: from the egg carving in Guanzi and the carving crisp in Burning Tail Food List to the watermelon cup carving and Mountain Residence Sacrifice in Old Stories of Wulin. ?

What is the charm of food carving? We might as well discuss it. If there is an ordinary banquet and a luxurious banquet, what will the producer use to show his grade? The producer's luxurious banquet first chooses some precious raw materials and exquisite containers, and the second difference lies in the use of food carving and color decoration. For example, put a vivid "urchin fishing" work next to "sweet and sour mandarin fish", and suddenly this dish becomes a beautiful picture, with the first visual effect, which makes people intoxicated in this elegant artistic conception and can't bear to think about it. At this time, in the eyes of diners, this dish has far exceeded its own edible value, and even spiritual enjoyment can be given priority to, supplemented by material enjoyment. ?

Food carving works are widely used, which really adds a lot of color to the banquet pattern that has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Of course, the technology of food carving has gradually become popular, but food carving is not used at most banquets because it is time-consuming, cumbersome and inedible. Nowadays, high-star hotels and restaurants pursue simplicity, liveliness and high efficiency, and they have no time to take care of food carvings and cannot eat them. Only when food festivals are held occasionally and food sculptures are used in stalls, but this is also a flash in the pan. Therefore, the disadvantages of food carving also exist. What are the disadvantages that hinder the development of food carving? First of all, the popularity of food carving is not enough. There are only a few people in the hotel who can master food carving skillfully, because food carving is a branch of cooking and the difficulty coefficient is very high. Secondly, the spread of food carving skills is still very conservative. On the competition field, the food carving technicians can give full play, and the people watching the exhibition jostle shoulder to shoulder, scrambling to take pictures and learn. The winning works have also been made into a collection of works of XX Competition, which must have developed rapidly. But if a three-dimensional food carving's works are taken as plane photos, how much reference and learning value can it have? Can't you use it after the game?

Finally, the production process of food carving works is complex, time-consuming and laborious, and often requires the sculptor to have a good atmosphere, a happy mood and plenty of time to complete a work. Nowadays, with the increasingly fierce social competition, people pay attention to high efficiency in their study and work, so the use of food carving will be less and less. ?

Since food carving is an ancient traditional skill, it should be carried forward. After experiencing the glory of past dynasties, where should the food carving skills go? It is an urgent problem for workers in food carving. As far as the author is concerned, food carving can be divided into two categories and developed separately. ?

1. Develop into the category of furnishings and ornamental handicrafts?

In the end, the development of food carving will completely break away from the cooking soil and become an independent art category, keeping pace with sculpture, calligraphy, painting and other art categories, and completely take the road of artistry. In order to develop in this direction, food carving must pursue perfection, with realistic, delicate and exquisite modeling. In the past, we often incorporated food carving works into cooking, such as a radish flower. You will think it will be beautiful with a dish, but when you see another the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, will you combine it with cooking? It can be a wonderful decoration at home or a popular selling point in handicraft shops. Therefore, food carving should be able to leave the cooking soil and form an independent art category. With the development of display and appreciation technology, it is not necessary for professional chefs to become "artists" and "artists". In addition, food carving is a short-lived art, and the preservation period of works can be studied. ?

2. Take a simple and practical road. ?

If we say that in the development of ornamental handicrafts, food carving works are the leading role, then the form of development is simple, and food carving works are supporting roles, playing the role of green leaves lining flowers. I like the edge of cold dishes and the dish decoration of hot dishes. The content of the manipulation is relatively simple. The edge of the dish is dotted with a few small flowers with green leaves, which are clear and bright, simple and beautiful, and more practical. Birds, animals, insects and fish carved with fruit do not need to be particularly realistic, but simple and abstract. These simple decorations are not difficult, but it is not easy to make the image appropriate, which requires the chef to have a certain artistic foundation and skilled knife skills to make the dishes and decorations match properly. ?

With the above two development directions, food carving has formed the characteristics of complexity, simplicity, precision, roughness, realism, similarity, appreciation and practicality, which will be combined with the development of cooking art.