eat snacks. The food with the historical charm of living alone includes sugar paintings, candied haws, sour plum soup, dragon beard crisp and various court cakes. 1. tanghua, sugar-coated haws

tanghua and sugar-coated haws often appear in costume TV dramas, and are known and loved by everyone with the shouting in the neighborhood market. Tanghua originated in the Ming dynasty, commonly known as? Sugar man? It is a delicious food with good color and taste, and it is also a traditional folk handicraft skill. It is molded with sugar, and most of the paintings are figures and animal patterns. Sugar-coated haws are traditional snacks of the Han nationality. Generally, hawthorn is used as raw material, wrapped in syrup, sweet and sour, which is very popular among women and children. According to legend, Song Guangzong's favorite concubine fell ill, and the quack suffered from rock sugar and hawthorn fruit, which cured her, so this way of eating was spread to the people. 2. Sour Plum Soup

Sour Plum Soup in ancient times is more authentic than it is now. It is boiled with rock sugar, with dark plum, hawthorn and licorice as the main ingredients. The oldest sour plum soup in China is the "Tugong Plum Fried" recorded in ancient books, followed by the "Plum-stewed water" (a cool drink similar to sour plum soup) mentioned in the Southern Song Dynasty's Old Stories of Wulin. Sour plum soup is an exclusive drink made for the emperor in the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty, which was later spread to the people. The sour plum soup we drink now is the inheritance of the Qing Dynasty sour plum soup. 3. Longxu Crisp

Longxu Crisp is said to be a snack eaten by ancient emperors, which was first known among the people as? Silver candy? Ming Wuzong traveled among the people, discovered it and named it? Asparagus sugar? After that, Lotus was awarded the title of "Longxusu" at a banquet in Yong Zhengdi, and became famous from then on. The method of making long beard crisp is simple, just put maltose in hot water and soak it until soft, knead it, dip it in glutinous rice flour for drawing, and then wrap peanuts, nuts and sesame seeds into shredded sugar.

In addition, preserved fruits, candied fruits and other common snacks eaten by the ancients, such as litchi, such as Yang Guifei? Riding the world of mortals and laughing? And Su Shi? 3 lychees a day? Allusions; Another example is melon seeds. A study of Mawangdui Han Tomb unearthed in Hunan Province found that Mrs. Xin Zhui had more than 1 sweet melon seeds stuck in her esophagus?