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The history of zongzi candy

Chai Zhi Zhai's famous food "Zongzi Candy", introduced in the Qing Dynasty, the founder of the Cai Zhi Zhai candy store Jin Yinzhi. Sugar is the main source of energy for the human body, so when the patient can not eat, sugar to supplement nutrition. In the Qing Dynasty, "zongzi candy" was listed as "tribute candy" for curing the illness of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Suzhou Cai Zhi Zhai was also famous in Kyoto. Suzhou famous doctor CaoCangZhou from Cixi love to eat zongzi candy get inspired, promote cai zhi zhai in the process of sugar, put into some edible herbs and fruit, such as peppermint, rose, pine nuts, nuts, etc., so that even if people eat delicious candy, but also make the human body to get a certain therapeutic effect, beneficial to health, prolong life. Soon, Cai Zhi Zhai will make a mint dumpling candy (mint cool, moisturize the lungs, inhibit liver qi), rose dumpling candy (rose blood), pine nuts dumpling candy (pine nuts contain a high level of vegetable protein fat). When people learned that these natural colorful, beautiful shape, sweet and delicious zongzi sugar can also cure, they flocked to buy, and said Cai Zhi Zhai is half a valve medicinal herbs store, from now on zongzi sugar has become a household name in suzhou specialties, gifts for friends and relatives. Cai Zhi Zhai in zongzi sugar on the basis of a wide range of plants, flowers and fruits and other raw materials, but also created a rose sauce sugar, pear paste sugar, easy sugar, crispy sugar, soft pine sugar, cinnamon sugar and so on more than a hundred varieties. Formed a sweet but not greasy, fresh and clean and refreshing, Zi Yin lining Yang, nutritionally rich unique food style. 1950s, in a Geneva international conference, Premier Zhou had used it to entertain international friends, praised and praised and known as the "national sugar". Since then, the product has been sold at home and abroad, and has been favored in the international market.