The combination of traditional skills and automatic shaping machine is expected to revive

As the Spring Festival is approaching, some places have the custom of steaming noodle flowers for the Chinese New Year. As soon as the twelfth lunar month enters, every household is busy preparing for the Chinese New Year. In addition, the noodle making factory is also making noodle flowers at full capacity to supply the Spring Festival market. And "noodle flower mold" as an important tool for steaming noodle flower has also begun to sell well.

Noodle flower is a kind of pasta that is steamed after being shaped by a mold. It has a long history and various shapes. It can be made into (customized) fish, peach, ingot, rooster, zodiac and other shapes to meet the diversified consumption of the market. need. In most areas of northern China, there are different art of face flowers, and the names of opposite flowers in different regions are also different. It is called flower cake, flower bun and so on.

In the north, many places have the custom of "eating noodle flowers during the Chinese New Year", and each noodle flower with auspicious meaning carries people's good yearning for the new year. With the continuous improvement of residents' living standards and the deepening of the emphasis on the customs and culture, the sales radius and market of noodle flowers have also become larger and larger, which has also promoted the development of noodle flower processing factories and noodle flower mold carving industries. The benign development of the industrial chain.

According to a relevant person, "In peak seasons, the noodle flower processing factory orders a lot. Now there are more than 10 large and small noodle flower factories in the town, and the products are in short supply." He is working overtime to make noodle flowers, and an average of more than 4,000 noodle flowers are made every day. In order to comply with the Year of the Tiger, in addition to the traditional series of "more than enough every year", the "Tiger and Tiger" noodle flower is also made through a special mold. The steamed little tiger noodle flower is lifelike and very popular with consumers.

Since the noodle flower is a kind of pasta that is steamed after being shaped by a mold, the production of "noodle flower mold" is particular about it. As an important tool for various types of face flowers, the carving skills of the noodle flower mold have a history of more than 100 years, and it has also been included in the third batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list of Hebei Province. It is understood that the traditional production of "mianhua mold" requires nearly ten processes to make various patterns, such as planing, painting the shell, chiseling the shape, trimming the shell, digging the hole, and carving the flower, with different shapes and lifelike shapes.

Although the carving technique of "face flower mould" carries traditional manual skills, while protecting and inheriting it, it is necessary to innovate and develop in the inheritance, especially in combination with modern automatic molding technology, so as to better adapt to modern industrial production. In this way, we can improve the processing efficiency and production capacity of noodle flowers, realize production automation, standardization and scale, and better meet the growing demand of the noodle flower market.

At present, products such as biscuits, pastries, moon cakes, chocolates, candies and soy products will also maintain different styles according to processing needs, but this has been achieved through automated molding equipment. The automatic molding equipment is equipped with a variety of molds, which can extrude foods with clear patterns and beautiful shapes, such as various biscuits, cakes, moon cakes, etc., or can produce various patterns of candy and chocolate according to the needs of fancy processing. It has a high degree of production and a large production capacity, which can well meet the requirements of large-scale and industrialized production.

Benefiting from the importance attached to the protection of traditional culture and intangible cultural heritage, there is a large space for the development of the noodle flower consumer market with various shapes and beautiful shapes. However, on the basis of maintaining the inheritance of the traditional carving skills of noodles, if the traditional and modern automatic forming technology is blended, for example, by improving the automation level of the "noodle mold" (ie, forming equipment), it will not only make the traditional carving skills of noodles more important. With a new life, large-scale and industrialized production can also be realized, so that Mianhua can bloom the youth of the times on a larger stage.