The good memories that remain on the tip of the tongue seem to be related to childhood. In winter, buying a crispy piece of hemp candy or a few sweet melons from street vendors used to be the sweetest childhood taste. Zhang Jinzhu of Shantou Village, Zhuangshang Town, Liulin County, has insisted on hand-making hemp candy and melon for more than 40 years, so that the good memories on the tip of the tongue of the locals can still be tasted repeatedly.
Walking into the production workshop, the smell of wheat fills the entire workshop, and the syrup stirred in the cauldron is the prototype of the melon we are familiar with. After cooling out, start hanging! The hanging sauce is the most critical step in the whole process, boiling the thick and reddish sauce, after more than 10 minutes of repeated pulling, gradually hardened into a light yellow, placed on a side table, pulled a long strip of consistent length, with a homemade rope to form the same size shape, crisp and sweet melon melon is completed.
[Interview: Zhang Jinzhu, representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project "Majiarong Vinegar" in Luliang City
When I was young, my father began to do it, and now I have been doing it for more than 40 years, engaged in hemp sugar knots, I have been in accordance with the ancestral legacy and practices, pure handmade, adhere to the traditional production methods and processes, so the taste has not changed for so many years, but also the most original taste. 】
With the development of society, hemp sugar and melon have long been not the main snacks. But Master Zhang did not slack off at all, every production process is very attentive, the most gratifying thing for Master Zhang is that the sweet and crispy hemp candy and melon are not slow to sell because of the changes of the times and the changes in the market, he still ushers in many seekers looking for childhood taste, often the speed of doing can not catch up with the speed of selling.
[Interview: Customer.]
It is no problem to eat, or the taste I ate when I was a child, mainly because people are older and often come here to eat. 】
More than 40 years of persistence, more than 40 years of exploration, in exchange for a piece of smooth and crisp hemp sugar, a sweet and attractive melon melon, in exchange for the cold winter moon everyone thinks of the New Year's taste.
Years ago is the most popular time for hemp sugar, knots, now do less and less people, we have been insisting until now, because this is our traditional snack, but also our generations of old craftsmanship, in the future, I will definitely in the guarantee of food safety on the basis of the use of modern marketing methods, so that more people eat our hemp sugar knots, taste the taste of childhood. Reporter: Miao Hui Huili
Liulin County Rong Media Center