The gongs and drums are loud, lions are danced in the north and south, and tourists are jostling with each other. In the morning, the three-day sugar ball meeting officially kicked off in Qingdao Haiyun 'an. High-grade performances, local folk customs, expanded trading places and novel new programs will make this year's Sugar Ball Expo more prosperous and unprecedented in scale.
On the evening of 6th and 7th, the team of Jilin Song and Dance Troupe who participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and CCTV Spring Festival Opera Gala in 2004 appeared at the Sugar Ball Club. On the morning of the 7th, the "Go Home and See" Peking Opera Concert brought together many famous artists, including Chen Yongling, a Peking Opera master who is known as one of the "four famous Peking Opera talents", Zhang Chunqiu, a famous Mei-pai actress, and Hong Sao, the actor in the modern Peking Opera "Hongyungang".
The original folk-custom items at the sugar ball meeting added strong folk-custom features. This time, a unique exhibition of China folk arts and crafts masters was held. Among them, China folk toys represent "male prostitutes", China folk dough figurines represent "Fangqing Li" and Gaomi Pratt & Whitney New Year pictures represent "Wang Zhaozhang". The South Lion and the North Lion will also "face each other" at the meeting.
In order to meet the needs of the expanding influence and scale of the sugar ball club, this year's sugar ball club has expanded a lot in the venue. Today, Xuanhua Road has gathered hundreds of snacks from north and south, and has become a street of flavor snacks. Sugar Ball Club also set up sub-venues in Chongqing South Road and Xinjian Automobile City. So that the sugar ball club is no longer limited to a few squares and streets, and the venues are scattered, and the sugar balls will slowly start to radiate to the whole region and the whole city.
This year's Sugar Ball Club has added many new and exciting contents. The new car parade, new car discount exhibition and world famous car photo exhibition held at the automobile culture festival will feast the eyes of the public. The first Happy Food Festival opened on the 4th, and hundreds of snacks from north and south gathered in the Sugar Ball Club.
As one of the national 100 folk tourism projects, Qingdao Haiyun 'an Sugar Ball Club is becoming the mainstay of cultural activities in the first month. As the person in charge of organizing the sugar ball club introduced, the sugar ball club should fully display folk culture and regional characteristics, and at the same time highlight the role of taking the club as the medium, literature as the medium and economy and trade as the main task, so as to promote the economic, tourism and cultural development of the whole region.
Wonderful candy balls steal the limelight, and the signature candy balls are refurbished.
Famous sugar balls from Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu and other places compete with local established sugar balls, but foreign sugar ball merchants obviously grab the local limelight. Compared with previous years, this year's signature candy balls are refurbished and dazzling.
"Kyoto Fat Man" not only used a megaphone, but also prepared a wonderful promotional film; Ms. Li from Handan not only attracted everyone with beautiful packaging boxes, but also prepared beautiful leaflets in Chinese and English. Sweet Honey from Jiangsu rented five booths and posted posters everywhere. Its manager Ji Rongfa said that although local sugar balls have a mass base, foreign sugar balls will not "admit defeat". The reporter found in the "Sweet Honey" exhibition counter in Jiangsu that there are actually more than 100 varieties. According to the different tastes of the elderly and children, different sugar balls were developed, which were once very popular. Although Qingdao local brands have a certain gap in this respect, they have a good mass base and they are also full of pots.
Liu's flower candy ball king: the new product launched every year is the gold-lettered signboard of Liu's candy ball. This year's sugar ball club, their main new products are: yam sandwich, carrot sugar ball, cucumber sugar ball, and hawthorn sugar ball wrapped in peeled sesame seeds, which is also a must-try variety recommended by the Liu family to the public.
Liangjiaga crispy skin: cashew sandwich, kiwi candy ball and yellow cherry fruit are new flavors that citizens can eat in Liangjia today.
Yuncheng Shuihu Sugar Ball King: Mung bean flour and red bean flour sugar balls are the enduring charm of Yuncheng Shuihu Sugar Ball King. At this year's sugar ball meeting, they will not only focus on this flavor of sugar balls, but also prepare to launch emerald coconut powder sugar balls. It is reported that hawthorn is a beautiful and delicious jade coconut after removing the core, adding red cherry or green cherry and wrapping it with syrup.
Gaojia sugar balls: Gaojia, which has been dominant in the field of sugar balls in the past few years, doesn't have many fancy varieties. Traditional sesame candy balls are still the main products this year.