Hangzhou's natural resources are unique, with a lot of water and few fields, everywhere is suitable for fruits, and fruit trees have a long history of cultivation. In the Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou people Lv need to bring back to their hometown the craft of processing candied fruit, and gradually formed Hangzhou's characteristic handmade candied fruit - sugar color, mainly orange cake, Buddha's hand, kumquat, plum and so on. It is recorded in Volume 2 of Suli Scenery by Zhang Zhinai during the Kangxi period that "the method began with Lv's." After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou candied fruit has been "popular in the two capitals" seasonal snacks (leisure food), with the help of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal transportation, exported to Suzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, up to the capital. Candied fruit has been famous, "its products are partners, can not be enumerated", according to the early Qing Dynasty local records: the sugar color at that time is mainly divided into two categories: sugar, honey dip. In recent times, the sugar-colored food handed down sugar water plums, sugar water loquat, plums, kumquats, apricots and other dozens of flavors, and "sugar water plums" is known as the first of the candied fruit, as early as in the famous "with the garden food list", "Taoan Mengyi" and "Hangzhou Prefectural Records," all have records. "Hundred Years Hui Chang" is a representative of the many firms that have been making sugar colors in Hangzhou for hundreds of years. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the candied fruits produced by the firm were selected as tribute, and during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, "Hundred Years Hui Chang" had become the designated supplier of the Ministry of the Interior. By the 34th year of the Republic of China, it had developed into a large firm with 18,000 silver dollars of capital, nearly 100 employees, and four production workshops, including preserves, tea, and lotus root powder. The products were exported to various provinces and the brand was famous at home and abroad. In order to make the precious traditional skills are effectively inherited, Zhejiang old "Hundred Years Huichang" at all levels of government support, through visits to the old artists, collect old recipes, restore the traditional sugar color production, preservation, inheritance of this folk handicraft with strong local characteristics, and declared the "Intangible Cultural Heritage List".