Candy Zhizhi Zhai

Candy Zhizhi Zhai is well known to Suzhou people of all ages. In fact, Cai Zhi Zhai is famous all over the world, not only for its delicious candies, but also for its ability to cure diseases. Legend has it that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi was ill for a long time. Cao Yan, a famous doctor in Suzhou, was ordered to treat the illness and offered Caizhizhai fritillary sugar to the Empress Dowager Cixi to help with the medicine. Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager Cixi's condition began to improve, which also caused Caizhizhai's illness. Fritillaria sugar became "tribute sugar", and from then on Caizhizhai's name became popular all over the country. Caizhizhai has many famous brand products, including candies such as pine rice dumpling candy, rose jam candy, crunchy pine candy, crunchy peach balls, soft pine candy, thin-skin candy, easy candy, heavy pine candy, light peach candy, almond candy, egg yolk peanuts, and clear water hawthorn. Cake, rose jam, etc., roasted seeds and nuts include vanilla watermelon seeds, rose watermelon seeds, salt and pepper torreya seeds, salt and pepper walnuts, etc., candied fruits include white sugar dried bayberry, nine-system plum peel, rose half plum, nine-system tangerine peel, etc.*** 100 More than ten varieties. Among them, the golden and crunchy crisp candies, the white and fragrant easy candies, and the sweet, fat and soft soft candies are the representatives of Soviet-style candies. They contain pine nuts that are beneficial to the lungs and qi. The sweet and crunchy peach balls contain uncoated walnut kernels, which can moisturize the lungs and relieve coughs. Bright red and transparent clear water hawthorn cake has the effect of lowering blood pressure. The fragrant rose paste has the effect of dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. Sweet and salty salt and pepper walnuts have the effect of nourishing qi and blood. Delicious white sugar dried bayberry, Jiuzhi plum peel, Jiuzhi tangerine peel, etc. have the effect of strengthening the stomach and digesting food. Other famous products such as roasted seeds and nuts with grains of hyacinth seeds, roses with thin shells and thick kernels, and creamy watermelon seeds are all famous for being "clean, small, and fragrant" and have the effect of promoting body fluids and moisturizing the intestines. Pine nuts have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, sesame seeds are blooming steadily, peanuts have fallen to the ground and are long-lasting, and walnuts have been harmonious for hundreds of years. Caizhizhai uses traditional Suzhou-style candies that "make sweetness" to pray devoutly for kind people... Cake Ball Huang Tianyuan Suzhou people like to eat sweet and glutinous food, and they give each other auspicious and festive gifts to express their congratulations every year and festival. Huang Tianyuan cake dumplings, created in the first year of Daoguang's reign (1821) in the Qing Dynasty, are quite popular gifts. In the past two years, Huang Tianyuan, in addition to making the flavor of old Suzhou, has also been inspired by Western cake shapes and designed many Western-style cakes. Now, Huang Tianyuan supplies more than 200 kinds of cakes, and provides more than 60 kinds of fresh cakes every day. Food, branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Anhui, Xinjiang and other regions. Huang Tianyuan has a wide variety of cakes. According to the seasons, there are timely varieties all year round. For example, sugar rice cakes, lard rice cakes, and glutinous rice dumplings are available on the first day of the first lunar month, sugar glutinous rice balls are available on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and oil rice dumplings are available on the second day of the second lunar month. Fried rice cakes, green dumplings are served on Qingming Festival in March, fairy cakes are served on April 14th, various kinds of rice dumplings are served on May 5th, mung bean cakes, mint cakes, and rice maple cakes are served in June, cowpea cakes are served on July 15th, and August 15th. We offer candied taro, candied sweet potato and roasted lotus root. We offer Double Ninth Festival cakes on September 9th, pumpkin dumplings in October, Winter Solstice dumplings in November and all kinds of rice cakes in December. In addition to supplying various varieties according to seasonal changes, Huang Tianyuan also introduces marketable varieties according to the customs and habits of Suzhou people. For the elderly, there are longevity balls and birthday cakes, for girls to get married, honey cakes and bed-making dumplings, and for children's full moon and first birthdays. There are dumplings for shaved heads and dumplings for one-year-olds, flat dumplings for school entrance, Dingsheng cakes for installing beams in a new house and moving into a new house, etc.