Perhaps many friends only know "salty tea" and "vegetable tea" when visiting Haifeng, but they don't know the so-called "sweet tea", but there is an unusual folk belief in a family named Ma in Haicheng Town. Every household will offer you a bowl of hot sweet tea on the fifteenth day of the first month. This bowl of sweet tea is full of the sincerity and blessings of the Ma family, which makes people feel deep and simple.
Then, how did the folk custom of "making sweet tea" come into being? What is its historical background? It is said that it is closely related to its ancestor Ma Dekun. In the seventeenth year of Jiaqing (18 12), Ma Dekun was born in a family with Ma Shixiong as his father and Zhuo as his mother. When I was a child (about ten years old), I got typhoid gastroenteropathy, my family was poor, I looked down on my doctor, and I suffered from dysentery for a long time. On one occasion, it happened to be the fifteenth day of the first month, and his mother Zhuo was washing a lot of Ma Dekun's "shit pants" under the Gao Qiao (Shiqiao) in front of the next lane. At this time, an old man with a white beard saw it and taught him to buy ginger and brown sugar and boil it in water. Just as Zhuo was grateful and looked up at the bridge, the old man disappeared instantly. Zhuo thought it was a "fairy" and went home to do it. Sure enough, Ma Dekun recovered after eating and was saved.