Chicken Feathers for Sugar refers to the era of scarcity of materials, small traders and vendors traveled the streets and alleys to brown sugar, straw paper and other inexpensive items, in exchange for residents of the home of the chicken feathers and other scraps in order to obtain a small profit. Chicken Feathers for Sugar people are also known as knocking sugar gangs, its organization will be a strict division of labor within the newcomers will also have someone to guide. Chicken Feathers for Sugar first originated in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China, and the original Yiwu Chicken Feathers for Sugar began in the town of Ersanli.

Twenty-three miles of "chicken hair for candy" and its historical and cultural development, but also not all smooth sailing. At that time, the chicken feather for sugar became the target of the crackdown, saying that the chicken feather for sugar is "abandoning agriculture and doing business", "speculation", "capitalism tail", and the national ban contradicts, precisely

Then, twenty-three miles also set up a "fight against speculation office", those in the twenty-three miles of the street hand-carrying blue hawking and set up stalls to drive the "Boom Boom" to fly, prohibit sugar stretches out of chicken hair for sugar, people to catch, money to be punished. However, the town of twenty-three miles even in the Cultural Revolution this cut the tail of capitalism, crack down on speculation in the period, the sugar out of the chicken hair for sugar is still flourishing, then twenty-three miles out of the town of chicken hair for sugar as many as 5,000 people, the scope of business not only involves the Zhejiang surrounding Jiangxi, Fujian Province, and other provinces, and extended to all parts of the country.

With the reform of China's market-oriented and active commodity economy, the town of XXisanli in the original chicken hair for sugar on the basis of the sale of small department stores, entered the development of professional markets and specializing in the operation of a new stage of small commodities, in the mid-seventies of the twentieth century, the town of XXisanli appeared in the hundreds of business stalls, and in the late seventies the formation of a first-generation market of small commodities in China.