How to make candied fruit?

Carved flowers and candied fruit are distributed in Quyang Town and its surrounding areas of Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County in southwest Hunan Province, in the south of Huaihua City, at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Carved candied fruit is a unique national food, a beautiful and unique handicraft, rich in national culture, and a folk art treasure that perfectly combines food culture and national culture. It originated at the end of the Five Dynasties and was handed down from generation to generation, becoming a royal product of Jingzhou folk in previous dynasties.

Carved candied fruit has formed a unique and complete process in material selection, carving and processing. Mainly using immature green-skinned grapefruit as raw material, the grapefruit is cut into circular or fan-shaped slices, and then the imagination is expanded on the grapefruit slices, and vivid and realistic patterns such as exotic flowers, birds and animals, dragons, phoenixes, fish and shrimps, figure vessels, auspicious calligraphy and painting are carved through creativity. Then it is refined through several processes such as rinsing with clear water, boiling in a copper pot, pickling with sucrose, drying in the sun, etc. Its composition is full, its shape is vivid, its craft is peculiar and its patterns are various. It tastes very pleasing and refreshing.

Carved candied fruit has been circulated for more than 1000 years. It is a product of civil society, a portrayal of people's lives, and a unique expression of national cultural psychology and cultural accumulation in different times. It has the unique artistic form and rich cultural connotation of Miao and Dong, which reflects the historical and cultural tradition, aesthetic pursuit and unique national spirit of the emerging Dong people from the connotation to the external performance, and achieves the artistic effect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. It fully demonstrates the creativity and handicrafts of the Miao and Dong people, and has positive witness significance to the formation and development of the Chinese nation's multiculturalism.

The main brands of Chinese mainland candied fruit: Jiudao Pill, a Hunan specialty, is the best in Anhui, Hui Ke, Tianwo in the north, and Mrs. Yao, ranking first in the world; There are (Zhaoqing) Fu Sen Garden, (Hangzhou) Centennial Huichang, (Hangzhou) Hua Weiheng, (Shantou) Bai Ying, (Shantou) Meifeng Garden, (Shantou) Xiang Ying, (Chaozhou) Jiabao, (Taicang) Mei Jia, (Puning) Ye Yuan Square, (Guangzhou) exotic flavor and (Chaozhou) Ji.