Sugar gourd, tell me about it.

Every time I eat candied haws, I really feel that I live in the north. In this winter, let's eat candied haws, drink milk tea, watch movies and set off fireworks. Sugar-coated haws are also called sugar-coated haws, sugar piers in Tianjin and sugar balls in Fengyang, Anhui. Sugar-coated haws are traditional snacks in China, which originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in malt syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, which is thin and hard, sour and sweet, and very cold.

In the Song Dynasty, the ancient practice began. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records that candied haws are made of bamboo sticks, filled with hawthorn, begonia fruit, grapes, yam, walnut kernel and bean paste, and dipped in rock sugar, which is sweet, crisp and cold. Teahouses, theaters, streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, and now they have become traditional snacks in China. Sugar-coated haws have the functions of appetizing, caring skin, increasing intelligence, eliminating fatigue and clearing away heat.