CCTV News: Flower buns, this intangible cultural heritage food containing traditional culture, are a must-have representative of the "New Year flavor" on the dining table of every household during the festival. Kneading, pinching, cutting, and repairing... pieces of ordinary dough have been transformed into lifelike "works of art". Today's "Cultural China Tour" will explore this cultural treasure that blooms on your fingertips.

Flower buns, also known as "flower buns", "dough plastic" and "dough flowers", have traditional customs of steaming flower buns during the New Year, many areas in northern my country have the traditional custom of steaming flower buns during the New Year. During the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Wanggezhuang Street, Shandong Province were filled with sweet wheat fragrance, and every household was making delicious big steamed buns. The dough of Laoshan River is manually kneaded repeatedly and then steamed in an iron pot. The large steamed buns made in this way are soft and sweet.

It is reported that the production skills of Wanggezhuang's big steamed buns can be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty and have a history of more than 500 years. With the development of the times, there are more and more patterns of big steamed buns, including coloring fruit and vegetable juice, simple tools and a variety of molding and depicting techniques, and more than 400 varieties of steamed buns such as Fulu, Suzuki, Fish Flower, Yuanbao, and Longevity Peach.

Walking into the homes of villagers in Yuantou Village, Huozhou City, Shanxi Province, where New Year's buns are being made for the New Year. The villagers gave the dough well, and with the skillful kneading, pinching, cutting, cutting and pressing, various shapes of New Year buns were born. They were full of meaning and had very particular production techniques. In order to make a good-looking shape, various tools were naturally indispensable.

From the initial simple shape to the colorful and varied creative flower buns today, it embodies people's beautiful expectations for the New Year and also brings a strong New Year atmosphere. In the past two days, people in the flower bun handicrafts in Chengcheng County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province are stepping up the production of a batch of flower buns containing the auspicious meaning of the "Year of the Snake". Shen Hongyun learned the skills of making flower buns with the elderly at home since childhood. She told reporters that any flower bun work requires at least 20 processes to complete, while some large and complex flower buns often require multiple people to collaborate.

The dragon and phoenix that symbolize good fortune and the fruits and vegetables that symbolize good harvests, show the characters of folk stories and legends, and the Shaanxi flower buns show the rich imagination and excellent handicraft skills of the local people. Nowadays, in order to better promote the inheritance and development of flower bun skills, the local area has actively carried out more than 100 research and study activities of various types, attracting more than 10,000 people to participate.