Good Autumn Pear Paste from Enjitang.

Autumn Pear Paste, also known as Snow Pear Paste, is a traditional medicinal dish. It is rumored to have started in the Tang Dynasty. To select the autumn pear (or duck pear, snow pear) as the main raw material, with the raw land, kudzu, radish, maitake, lotus root, ginger, shellfish, honey and other medicinal raw materials carefully boiled into a medicinal drink.

Autumn Pear Paste used to be a special medicine in the palace until the Qing Dynasty when it was spread out of the palace by the imperial doctors and then spread in the folklore. It also became a traditional Beijing specialty because it has since been made with autumn pears from the suburbs of Beijing and sold in the capital.

Legend has it that one year Emperor Qianlong Jiangnan tour, passing through Dangshan County, Dangshan County, Dangshan County, a good harvest of pears, Dangshan County magistrate to pay tribute to some Dangshan pears. The emperor saw the Dangshan pear, found its appearance, the heart is slightly upset.

County magistrate is a long time in the field of people, see the emperor is not happy, a bright idea, asked the attendant to hand a pear, so that the emperor to present the characteristics of this pear.

Attendant after orders, from the basket out of a large pear, to the magistrate hand, the magistrate pretended to reach out to pick up, the attendant released the hand, the magistrate is not really pick up the pear, but let the pear fell to the ground, only to hear the ground "snap" sound, the emperor and the crowd raised their eyes to look at the pear has disappeared, the ground has only The emperor and the crowd looked up, the pears have disappeared, only a puddle of water on the ground.

County magistrate hastily fell to his knees, and said: I am guilty, surprised the Holy Driver. Emperor Qianlong opened the golden mouth: Forgive your innocence, quickly for me to introduce the characteristics of this pear. County magistrate said: thank you Lord Longan, climbed up from the ground, to introduce the characteristics of Dangshan Pear to the emperor, then served Dangshan Pear, the emperor tasted, greatly appreciated. Since then, the Dangshan pear "fall into the water" famous all over the world.

Subsequent use of this pear to modern production technology, with careful screening of raw materials and unique boiling method finally successfully developed to meet the needs of modern people in the autumn pear cream.

Nowadays, people tend to enjoy the convenience and comfort of modern technology, but also have to pay a price in the quality of life and health, and through the inheritance of the autumn pear cream is just to help remove fire, dryness, moistening the lungs, cough essential drink for modern life, and won the "Dangshan County Intangible Cultural Heritage" title.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Pear Paste