The Origin of Ancient Snack Sugar-Coated Berry
Hawthorn Morphological Characteristics
thornbush
Deciduous trees with rough bark and dark gray or grayish brown; The fruit is nearly spherical or pear-hawthorn tree-shaped, with a diameter of 1- 1.5 cm, dark red with light spots.
hawthorn
Crataegus pinnatifida belongs to Crataegus of Rosaceae, and its anti-aging effect ranks first among all fruits. Hard core, thin pulp and slightly sour taste. Fruit can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruit cake, and can be used as medicine after being dried. It is a unique tree species for both medicine and fruit in China.
sugar-coated haws
Sugar-Coated Berry is also called candied haws. Sugar-Coated Berry is a traditional snack in China, which originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in maltose syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, which is thin and hard, sour and sweet to eat, and hawthorn is still very cold.
Sugar-Coated Berry Historical Story
In ancient times, hawthorn was still eaten as a medicinal material. During the Shaoxi period in the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Guangzong's favorite princess suffered from a strange disease, and she spent all day worrying about tea and rice. After a long time, she became sallow and emaciated, and she was weak.
The emperor found a quack doctor to treat the imperial concubine. After asking her questions, he wrote a prescription: boil brown sugar into water, then put it in hawthorn, as long as you eat 3-5 pills before meals every day and stay sick for half a month. According to this method, the imperial doctor insisted on eating, but she recovered completely within half a month. The emperor is also very happy, and his life is the same. Later, this sour and sweet prescription was introduced to the people, and it became the predecessor of Sugar-Coated Berry.
Hawthorn nickname
Crataegus pinnatifida, which originated in ancient times, was not named by this name at first in China. Revenge recorded in Erya two thousand years ago.
Qiú is considered to be the ancient name of hawthorn recorded in China's early literature. Because in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen quoted Guo Pu, a scholar in the Jin Dynasty, as saying: "Erya says:' Qiu Shu is like a plum, and his son is as big as a finger, and red as an apple (nài), which is edible. This is hawthorn. Hawthorn was also called monkey hawthorn and rat hawthorn in ancient China, because "monkeys and rats like to eat it".
Hawthorn, Medicinal Value
The remarkable improvement of the status of hawthorn has a great relationship with the discovery of the medicinal value of hawthorn by famous doctors such as Zhu Danxi in Yuan Dynasty and Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Ancient prescriptions are rarely used, since Zhu's contribution to hawthorn in Danxi, and then it became an important medicine." The utilization of hawthorn in traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses fruits.
Hawthorn ancient poetry
Xiang He Ge Ci Jiangnan Qu [Tang] Li He
Ting Zhou Bai Ping Cao, Liu Yun rode home. Hawthorn trees are fragrant in the river, and butterflies fly on the shore. If the wine glass leaves dew, the jade bureau is high and the Shu Tong is empty. Zhu Lou is connected with the water, and the sand warms a pair of fish.
Torinji [Song] Zhang Zhilong
The yard is full of fragrant wind and ripe hawthorn, and the monkey and grandson are sitting in the dry. The Buddhist monk was not used to welcoming guests, so he folded the hibiscus for Sakyamuni.
"On the Tide Wall of the River" [Tang] Wan Chu
Tian Jia likes autumn ripe, and the leaves of Yan Lin are sparse at the age of 20. Grain and millet are piled up in the nursery, and hawthorn and pear are hanging on the door. The wild dog barks when it is idle, and the cow returns at dusk. When the wine falls, Mao Zhai can rent mourning clothes.