Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming

Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming

Overview

Qingming Festival, also called the Outing Festival, is one of the important sacrificial festivals in China at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the 104th day after the winter solstice. People worship ancestors and sweep tombs before and after this time.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare 1 loofah

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 1

  2. Use a paring knife to peel some loofah skin and set aside

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 2

  3. Then cut out a thin strip of loofah

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 3

  4. Cut out a semicircular loofah rind as shown in the picture

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 4

  5. Cut out the outline

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 5

  6. Cut another one of the same size, but use the wrong side of the loofah rind to make the front side

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 6

  7. Cut out another identical loofah strip and do the opposite

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 7

  8. Cut out some swallows

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 8

  9. Chop the rest of the loofah

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 9

  10. Then chop some loofah pulp

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 10

  11. Place the two long strips in the middle and lower position of the plate, and place the pre-made arch bridge in the appropriate position. Pay attention to the depth at the top and the shallowness at the bottom to create a reflection

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 11

  12. Sprinkle the shredded loofah rind on top

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 12

  13. Spread some more to look like a big tree

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 13

  14. Sprinkle the chopped loofah pulp on top according to the corresponding position

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 14

  15. Place the little swallows

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 15

  16. The fresh and elegant dinner plate painting is completed

    Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dinner Plate Painting—Qingming step 16