Sugar gourd, also known as sugar gourd, is an ancient Chinese snack and delicacy. Generally speaking, sugar gourd is made of hawthorn, which is sweet and sour and very popular among women and children. However, do you know how the sugar gourd came to be? What is the origin of sugar gourd? With questions, the following article for you to reveal the secret.
The origin of the ice sugar gourd
Early in the Song Dynasty began, "Yanjing Years and Years" year recorded the ancient practice of sugar gourd: sugar gourd, made of bamboo sticks, with hawthorn, begonias, grapes, yam, walnuts, bean paste and other soaked and become. Dipped in icing sugar, sweet, crisp and cool. It can be found everywhere in teahouses, theaters, streets and alleys, and is now an ancient Chinese snack.
It is said that sugar gourd was originally a medicinal food. During the Shaoxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Huang Guifei, a favorite of Song Guangzong Zhao Fu, fell ill with a strange disease. Every day she teared up and her breath smelled of smoke. Soon, my body looked emaciated and my face looked gaunt. Song Guangzong was very distressed when he saw it. The divine doctors in the palace could not find out where the disease was.
In order to cure Huang Guifei, Song Guangzong posted an imperial list. One day, a charlatan saw this imperial list and came into the palace to check your consort's pulse. Jianghu Langzhong read a prescription: fried yam with rock sugar, eat 53 before each meal, 335, 410, half a month. After reading the doctor's prescription, the imperial doctors were not impressed. Guifei had eaten so many expensive herbs and was not well. How effective can a hawthorn boiled in rock sugar be? After Song Guangzong saw the prescription, he thought that hawthorn can't eat bad people, so he might as well give it a try, so he let Guifei cook hawthorn with rock sugar every day. After less than half a month, your consort's face was rosy, Song Guangzong was very happy and rewarded the groom.
Later this formula spread to the folk, people hot enough to eat candied hawthorn is not convenient, it is tied with a wooden stick. This led to the formation of today's sugar gourd.
Hawthorn in Chinese medicine has the effect of eliminating food and resolving accumulation, dispersing blood stasis and stopping dysentery. Medical doctor Li Shizhen once said, "Boil old chicken hard meat, mountain plant a few, easy to rot, then you can push." It can be seen that hawthorn is a good stomach and food elimination remedy.