“Everybody says that sugar-coated haws children acids, acid inside it is wrapped in sweet …… candied fruit, good-looking bamboo children wear, it symbolizes happiness and reunion, happiness and reunion with clusters, there is no worry did not bother to …” a “sugar-coated haws “sing to the north and south, sugar-coated haws sent to people’s hearts.
Sugar-coated haws is one of the characteristics of old Beijing snacks. The According to legend the Songguangzong Shaoxi, the most favorite of Mitsumune yellow chaise sudden illness, Chafanbusi, then increasingly gaunt, pale and thin. Physician with a lot of valuable medicinal herbs, chaise ill and can not be cured. The emperor had no option but posting times and doctors. A quack Jiebang the palace, for the yellow chaise diagnose the troubles of a prescription: “with rock sugar and red berries (hawthorn) suffering, before each meal to eat five to ten.” We all started skeptical, but the doctor can not tell the Half Moon Royal disease quasi-mend, so by side decocting only do not want sweet and sour Royal children quite to the taste of children, also insist on taking a half months, do not want, the concubine disease really scheduled healed. Overjoyed Mitsumune, generous rewards doctor.
Later this prescription spread to folk, people improved, dipped in sugar red fruit the size of the two with a bamboo stick to string together big guy below, a little man in the above, the shape of gourd is very similar. And because the hoist with Fluke homonym of the word, auspicious, so we put this candy called “candied fruit children.
Gradually, people on a bamboo stick string red berries growing number of bright red hawthorn neatly arranged by size on a bamboo stick sub, wrapped in transparent taffy, a string of sugar ball like a bar Being filled with the fruits of branches, shining brilliantly, people can not help but open the appetite. Coupled with maltose It is a bit off, slightly bang bang crisp, sugar wrapped in bright red hawthorn and knees, and covered with a thin sweet crispy, both with sweet but not greasy, acid teeth.
Not to mention the candied fruit child affordable, according to the Ming Dynasty distinguished medical scientist Li said: “hard-boiled chicken meat hard into the hawthorn the number of teeth that is easily broken, its consumption to the power of the plot, the cover can be pushed men.” the effect is even more was the people’s favorite. Modern medicine has also proved that the Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene and other nutrients and dietary fiber, is a good antioxidant that can improve immunity. In addition, hawthorn contain a variety of active substances, improve heart activity, soften blood vessels to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Thus, in Beijing, as long as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the music like selling sugar-coated haws cries resounded through the streets, the Spring Festival is the season of sugar-coated haws sell, from New Year’s Day to fifteen temple in Beijing, the crowds four shuttle sugar-coated haws figure. Today, the pattern of the old Beijing candied fruit children more and more, in addition to red berries, yam, mountain beans, oranges, water chestnuts, bananas, kiwi, really be described as dazzling, as well as stuffed red fruit: peach stuffing, red bean paste, jujube paste filling.
