Is hand-cooked brown sugar an intangible culture in China?

Yes, the technology of cooking brown sugar by hand has been passed down in China for nearly a thousand years, and it is a very unique intangible cultural heritage. As a kind of food, brown sugar can be added to food to add flavor to food, and can also be boiled into syrup for people to enjoy. Now brown sugar is more useful for menstrual women to help them relieve menstrual abdominal pain.

Although this kind of brown sugar is boiled in small pieces, the effects brought by different varieties are different. In the production of brown sugar, most of them have to go through several processes to fully boil out the ingredients of this brown sugar and give full play to its greatest effect. This first step is to select the raw material of brown sugar, that is, sugarcane. This kind of sugarcane is usually planted in a place with a good environment in the mountains, picked when it is ripe, and then taken to the workshop for juicing.

This second process is to filter the juice of sugarcane with fine cloth, and then carry out some precipitation, so that the sugar water of sugarcane becomes more pure and free of dregs during the filtration process. Finally, put the sucrose water into a pot and boil it until the sugar water condenses into a paste, and then proceed to the next step to make brown sugar. Of course, before boiling the sugar water, it is necessary to let the sugar water ferment freely for several hours, and then proceed to the next process after full fermentation.

In addition, there are several kinds of pots for boiling brown sugar. Generally, sugar water is boiled in a large pot first, and then put into a smaller pot to further refine brown sugar. After the shape becomes smaller and shaped, put it in the smallest pot to evaporate water. In these complicated processes, every step needs a skilled master to personally check, in order to achieve the final quality of these brown sugar products. Although the production process of brown sugar is complicated, most of it is integrated with the wisdom of our ancestors, which breeds the existence of brown sugar culture, which is a cultural heritage that must be passed down and the pride of our nation.