Han Zaifa, a Hui ethnic group, is the founder of Changchun's famous snack, "Lao Han Tou Dry Bean Curd Skewers", born in 1921, with an ancestral origin in Shandong. His father, Han Lai-sheng, came to Jilin Province with his grandfather from Shandong due to the poverty of his family, and opened a beef store to make a living. Because of the sparsely populated land, coupled with the cold weather, life was extremely difficult. Han in the hair from the age of 13, will be determined to share the burden of life for the family. His father saw that he was ambitious, so he took him to the Guanwai "northern wilderness" (today's Jilin Province, Guoerlos and Tongyu, Chagan Lake and other places) to start his own business. His father was a famous cow slaughterer at that time, and he taught his son how to slaughter cows, how to wash and cook meat and other skills. A few years later, Han Zaifa also gradually matured and became an excellent cow slaughterer in the Han family.

Later, they moved their family to Changchun, where they continued to engage in the cattle slaughtering business along the Minkang Road. When Han was 22 years old, it was the night before the liberation of Changchun. Many people were starving and on the verge of death due to the setting up of the jam, and he would always bring out his family's big biscuits for them to eat, and many of them bowed down and thanked him and his family for saving their lives. He always said, at this juncture, we are poor not to help the poor who take care of it?October 19, 1948, Changchun liberation, Han in the hair of the new life of enthusiasm and courage, with a good craft engaged in self-employment. Regardless of the summer rain, winter snow, he always push the cart early every day to the street to sell beef and mutton and roasted chicken, and then he did the business of selling bean curd skewers.

Han Zaifa's tofu skewers are different, characterized by the right ingredients and a knowledge of cooking soup. Every time before cooking dry tofu he has to be careful to do a variety of preparations, the first will be a good chicken broth, plus a variety of ingredients, and then add monosodium glutamate, peppercorns, dashi, salt; and then with a small bamboo skewer to dry tofu 10 10 10 string up, into the pot with the old broth to cook. To a certain time after the flavor of chicken broth seeped in, and then fished out of the dry and then coated with sesame oil into the plate. This method of making dried tofu skewers flavorful and beautiful, so that people can not help but close to the mouth again and again. So, the old Han Tou dry tofu skewers of the beautiful name spread, and over time people open the mouth to call "old Han Tou", forgetting that his original name is Han in the hair.

Decades past, Han Zaifa created the "old Han Tou dry tofu skewers", gradually become Changchun on the ground and a beautiful brand of famous snacks. In order to prevent people from stealing their own brand, Han Zaifa dry tofu skewers continue to be processed and innovation, to take advantage of the trend, and create new varieties such as chicken soup tofu skewers, spicy tofu skewers and other new varieties.

Han Zaifa's life to personality, honesty, and the relentless pursuit of a "true" word. Beijing and other cities in the restaurant has repeatedly invited him to do dry tofu skewers, some foreign companies have also repeatedly asked him to run dry tofu skewers business, but he politely declined. After the reform and opening up, after perseverance and hard work, Han Zaifa created the "old Han Tou dry tofu skewers", with its beautiful name and delicious deep-rooted in the hearts of the majority of consumers, won the "Changchun City Famous Snacks" title in 1999 was also awarded the "Chinese Famous Tea Products". In 1999, it was also awarded the honorary title of "China's Famous Tea Products".

Han in the hair although the person is old, but the heart is not. He had talked to his children about a wish, hope that in the future the "old Han head dry tofu string" bigger and stronger, to achieve the marketing of scientific, large-scale, modernization. 2000 lunar August, Han Zai Fa died at the age of 79. His daughter Han Donghua inherited his wishes, and now has the initial "old Han Tou dry tofu skewers" small workshop operations, the development of a certain scale, with millions of assets, business network covering the province's old Han Tou Food Co. Han started before the occurrence of the "old Han Tou dry tofu skewers" to achieve product diversification, serialization, so that it is more competitive in Changchun and even inside and outside of Jilin Province, and stepped into a new period of development.