Qinyang City, which belongs to Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, was called Huaiqing House in ancient times. It is known as "Qinhuai Ancient County, a famous country of Heshuo, the hometown of Shang Yin and the hometown of musicians". There are spectacular natural landscapes such as Danhe Canyon, historic places of interest such as Sansheng Pagoda of Tianning Temple, and of course, there are also delicious snacks full of the flavor of northwest Henan. Among them, sweet sesame candy is a snack that Qinyang locals must prepare on holidays. Then,

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Guhuaiqingfu area has developed commerce, gathered merchants and a wide variety of flavor snacks, among which sweet sesame candy is one of the most representative delicacies. There are three kinds of Huaiqingfu-style snacks written in "Records of Qinyang City" compiled by Shi Zhiban of Qinyang City and published by Hongqi Publishing House in 1993. Among them, there are sweet sesame candy, and the other two are salty donkey meat and Jinxianshu sesame cake.

Sweet sesame candy, also known as hi-sesame candy and syrup sesame candy, is a traditional holiday food that has been circulated in Guhuaiqing prefecture for thousands of years. According to the Records of Qinyang City, according to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, the Emperor Wu of Wei, led his troops to Gao Qian in the north and passed through Xiwan Town, Yewang County, Hanoi County (now Qinyang City), and he once ate sweet sesame candy, which was doubly appreciated.

For more than 1000 years, in the area around Guhuaiqing House, people always take sweet sesame candy as a gift for holidays, betrothal and marriage. Especially before the Spring Festival every year, every household should set up a frying pan to fry sweet sesame candy, and the sweet sesame candy flavor of Elsholtzia fluttered everywhere in urban and rural areas.

The main raw materials of sweet sesame candy are maltose syrup and wheat flour. When it is made, the syrup is diluted into syrup by adding appropriate amount of water and a little white sugar, then wheat flour is added and fully stirred into a dough with suitable hardness, and then rolled into a rectangular strip with a length of 4-6 inches, a width of 2-3 inches and a thickness of about half an inch by hand, fried in a hot vegetable oil pot, and then taken out of the pot when it is fried until the sauce is red. Because sweet sesame candy is sweet but not greasy, soft and tender, it is suitable for all ages, and is known as "meat does not change" and "overnight thinking".

With the progress of society, the types of holiday gifts are updated, and the well-known sweet sesame candy has gradually withdrawn from the ranks of holiday gifts, but it is still a famous local snack deeply loved by Qinyang people. Now, people can buy sweet sesame candy at any time in supermarkets, streets and rural market towns.