Snow sculpture, also known as snow sculpture, is a snow blank made of snow. The compressed snow blank has hardness and can be carved. In addition, snow is sticky and can be piled up, which makes snow sculpture not only have the rough and honest style of stone carving, but also have the delicate and round characteristics and forms of tooth carving.
Sand sculpture, as its name implies, is to carve with piled sand and turn the sand pile into a work of art.
Judging from the production process of sand sculpture creation, the preparatory work in advance can be described as huge and arduous.
Take the sand sculpture competition in Hu Sha, Ningxia as an example, there are a lot of arduous preparations to be made in advance, and this preparation is actually a project. Let's start with this pile of sand. The first step is to prepare the iron plate enclosure for fixing loose sand. Is it 80 cm in height and 7 meters in length and width in Ningxia Hu Sha Competition? The 8m iron plate forms a rectangular sand sculpture pile foundation. The second step is to fill the bulldozer with sand. The reporter saw the scene. Inside the fence, bulldozers need two buckets of sand to fill a layer. The third step, the next step is to water the sand. Generally speaking, the ratio of water to sand should be equal, that is, sand should be filled with as much water as it is filled with. In order to keep loose sand piles plastic all the time, we must constantly "feed" them with water. Walking in the sand sculpture competition, you will always see long water pipes and managers sprinkling water everywhere. Its engineering quantity can be imagined. But this is far from the whole story. The fourth step is to tamp repeatedly from each point with a mechanical rammer to soften the sand and water together. In this way, the sand pile sank a lot and the bulldozer continued to fill the sand. Next, repeat the first one, two, three and four steps. After three times, the sand foundation at the bottom is fixed and needs to be developed upwards. This time depends on the quality of the sand. Although the sand quality of Husha Lake in Ningxia is good, the sand used for sand sculpture is not based on fineness, but on cohesion. According to the contestants who participated in the sand sculpture competition in Lvliang, Yunnan, although the sand there is not as fine as that in Husha Lake, Ningxia, it has a sandy texture, and its cohesion is of course better than that of fine sand, which is also conducive to the carving and preservation of sand sculptures. There is room for sand to develop upward on the square foundation. However, the sand of Husha Lake in Ningxia can't. Because it is exquisite and pure, it can only be smaller and smaller. This is why all the 20 sand sculptures "Yishuier" are pyramid-shaped.
On the basis of compacting the sand foundation, repeat the above steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 layer by layer until it is consolidated to the seventh layer, so that the compacted sand pile can be used for sand sculpture creation. The works of Ningxia Husha Sand Sculpture Competition are 5.2 meters high. Needless to say, the top of the pyramid is the most pointed, but there is room for carving. Sand sculpture is an internationally recognized environmental protection art. Raw materials are taken from nature, and lifeless loose sand can bring beauty to nature and human beings after being processed by artists. Except for a very small amount of water-soluble glue used for shaping, sand sculpture only uses sand and water. But this water is too much, and too much is a bad thing. Chen Jianhong, a female player from Beijing, was in trouble on the third day of the competition. Because a part of her works, the "Pearl of Tianshan Mountains"-the Aitiger Mosque, was carved empty, which is very difficult. "The house leaks in rainy days, but it rains all night." The rain in Mao Mao on the second and third days of the competition really brought her a little trouble, and some of her works were soaked by the rain. What is more difficult is the protection of sand sculpture works. When it comes to the protection of sand sculptures, people have different views. If a sand sculpture is properly preserved (no hurricane, rainstorm, hail and man-made damage), it can be preserved for about a year. At present, there are also sand sculptures with the longest preservation time in the world for more than ten years. In addition to the "force majeure factor" mentioned above, the decisive factor here is the quality of sand.
American player Dan Bodie does not agree to keep sand sculptures. He believes that the appeal of the beauty of sand sculpture works lies in its immediate beauty creation. Wouldn't it be better to leave memories in people's minds and stimulate people's reverie about beauty? !
No matter what people say about the protection of sand sculptures, it is an indisputable fact that Hu Sha, Ningxia intends to open all 20 sand sculptures into theme parks. This goes back to the remarkable characteristics of the participation, performance and marginal pop art of sand sculpture art. It is said that sand sculpture is a perfect combination of modern art and tourism products, which can be seen from the opening of Husha Sand Sculpture Theme Park in Ningxia. Two sand sculpture competitions, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Lvliang, Yunnan and Songshan, Shanghai, have achieved double harvests in culture and economy. Looking forward to the double harvest of Ningxia Husha Sand Sculpture Competition in the western development.