In recent days, the figure of the rock sugar gourd has gradually appeared on the street, as if to tell people that winter is coming and a new round of scenery is coming.
Rock sugar gourd, also known as sugar gourd, is a traditional Chinese snack made of hawthorn strung with bamboo skewers and dipped in maltose, which quickly hardens in the wind. Rock sugar gourd in the Song Dynasty has an ancient practice, "Yanjing Chronicle" records that the rock sugar gourd is made of bamboo sticks, through the mountain red, begonia fruit, bean paste, etc., dipped in rock sugar, sweet and crisp and cool.
In the old days, there was a kind of sugar gourd that carried a burden or carried a wooden carrying box and a bamboo basket to the streets and shouted and sold: "Alas, the rock sugar gourd yo, newly dipped." "The vendor sells a wooden plate with a semicircular shelf of bamboo pieces bent on one end, with many small holes inserted with sugar gourds, and the other end is a stove, iron pot, board, knife and shovel, sugar, red fruit, yam and other tools and raw materials that can be made on the spot.
After development and evolution, in the northeast, the rock sugar gourd has produced a "moth", everything can be "ice", all kinds of strange ice sugar gourds have emerged, only you can't think, there is no northeast people "ice" less, just yesterday, the northeast of the strange ice sugar gourd also rushed on weibo hot search.
Let's take stock of what strange rock sugar gourds are in the northeast.
Let's start with a simple, whole banana to understand...
Not exciting enough, "ice" point spicy strips
Let's skewer green onions and chicken feet
The whole chicken can also be whole, just ask you if you are strong!
And pig's trotters
Rock sugar corn
Rock candy marshmallows
It is worth noting that everyone has different views on these strange rock sugar gourds.
According to the questionnaire survey, many people think that although these strange rock sugar gourds attract attention, they are actually not good in taste and more expensive, or the original hawthorn sugar gourd is more delicious.
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So why do you still buy, and why do these strange sugar gourds still have a market?
Perhaps the people who buy these strange sugar gourds are often not for good food, but to experience the novel and historical life of the city, not to get satisfaction on the tip of the tongue, but to take into account a certain spiritual pleasure or the pursuit of some entertainment.
As a relatively primitive candy, the rock sugar gourd is fundamentally different from the various beautifully packaged fruit candies retailed in stores today, the former is handmade and ingenious, symbolizing a kind of leisure and leisure; the latter can not shake off the atmosphere of industrial society.
These strange rock sugar gourds have a leisure meaning, are embellishments of the cityscape, and reflect a certain attitude of life of people in the city.
Shopping with a gourd with a seductive color or strange color, there is a sense of intoxication.
As Zhou Zuoren wrote in "Tea In Beijing": "In addition to the daily necessities, we must have a little useless game and pleasure to make life interesting." We look at the sunset, look at the autumn river, look at the flowers, listen to the rain, smell the incense, drink wine that does not quench our thirst, and eat snacks that do not seek to be full, all of which are necessary in life - although they are useless decorations, and the more refined they are, the better."
At this time, the rock sugar gourd is not only a kind of food, it is a childhood memory, is a microcosm of a spiritual life, the moment of enjoying the rock sugar gourd is also the moment of tasting life, and the beautiful length of life is composed of countless moments like this.
While tasting all kinds of strange sugar gourds, people can achieve a kind of self-relief in their hearts, experience the poetry of life, and then continue to throw themselves into a new round of battle.