Shanghai pear paste candy is a traditional famous spot of the Han nationality in Shanghai, one of the time-honored products in China, and a famous specialty. Pear paste sugar is made of pure white sugar (no caramel, flavor, color) and fourteen kinds of domestic herbs (milled powder) such as almonds, Sichuan shellfish, banxia, and poria. The taste is sweet as honey, loose and crisp, non-greasy and non-sticky, aromatic and palatable, neat and tidy, beautiful packaging, excellent quality and remarkable curative effect. Shanghai pear paste candy has a long history, the origin can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, and is currently famous at home and abroad, and is deeply loved by the majority of men, women and children.
Pear paste candy is also divided into ben gang (Shanghai), Su gang, Hangzhou gang, Yang gang, and the pear paste candy of the Old City God Temple is the gang. In the fifth year of Qing Xianfeng (1855), a pear paste candy shop with the shop name "Yongshengtang" was opened next to the West Shouqing Snow Fang of the Old City God Temple. In the 30th year of the Qing Dynasty (1904), another "De yongtang" was opened in the north of the Old City God Temple, and the autocracy specialized in pear paste candy. Because the pear paste candy produced and sold by each family can suppress cough and dissolve phlegm, the price is cheap and good, and it has gradually become a popular local product of the Old City God Temple. Later, in order to meet the needs of the upper class, Mr. Zhu Zixing, the "Zhu Pinzhai" chuan, launched a high-grade pear paste candy food, in addition to the consumption of cough and phlegm medicine, and then added ginseng, deer antler velvet, eleutheroccus, jade gui, schisandra and other valuable supplements, so that pear paste candy has become a set of gifts, idle food, treatment as one of the high-end food series.
Tasting type pear paste candy, also known as flower color pear paste candy. There are dozens of varieties of mint, pandan, dried shrimp, walnut, kumquat, meat pine, almond, hundred fruit, ham, peanut, pine nut, rose, osmanthus flower, bean paste, etc., using Chinese herbal medicine and pure natural raw materials, carefully processed. The product is sweet but not greasy, sweet with incense, fragrant with fresh, contained in the mouth, the aftertaste is endless.
Drug-type pear paste sugar, also known as therapeutic pear paste sugar. There are agar paste-like pear paste candy, granular punch pear paste sugar produced by special processing technology, and cough-suppressing pear paste candy, Chuanbei pear paste candy, hundred herb pear paste candy, appetizing pear paste candy and so on. Medicinal pear paste sugar selected pear juice, Sichuan shellfish, almonds, half summer, poria and other more than a dozen high-quality medicinal materials, using ancestral secret recipes, carefully processed. After quantitative analysis by experts, it was confirmed that it has the effect of suppressing cough and dissolving sputum, moisturizing the throat and clearing the lungs, and has unique features in the treatment of cough, tracheitis, asthma and other diseases.