Biography
Dong Shuyuan, female, born in 1944, deputy director of Tangshan Xinxin Hemp Sugar Factory, inheritor of "Hemp Sugar King", member of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the Hebei Provincial Food Association, national judge, Tangshan City model worker. Dong Shuyuan began to learn art from a teacher at the age of 14, and at the age of 16, she rolled out the hemp sugar noodles as thin as a bee wing, and was praised by the mayor of Baiyun. In 1963, he was invited to perform for Liu Shaoqi, Bo Yibo and other central leaders, and was praised. Under her auspices, after decades of dedicated research, The New New Hemp Sugar has formed a unique production process and developed towards greater intensification.
Tangshan Xinxin Hemp Sugar Factory was identified as a "Chinese time-honored brand" enterprise by the Ministry of Domestic Trade, won the silver medal at the first China Food Expo, and was recognized as "China Food Safety Brand" by the state. The product, Honey Hemp Sugar, was recognized as a high-quality product by the Ministry of Commerce, and the honey hemp candy production technology was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Hebei Province in 2009. In 1972, When Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China, Premier Zhou specially invited the new new sesame candy banquet, and Tanaka wrote in his message: "The magic of the button, the aroma of the teeth and cheeks." When Premier Zhu Rongji inspected the Kailuan Coal Mine, he specially tasted the new new sesame candy, and envoys and military attaches from 28 countries who came to Tang to inspect the new new hemp candy.
From the perspective of production technology, honey hemp sugar itself is a handicraft, and the delicacy and high requirements of each process are different from other foods. A 400 grams of wheat flour prepared dough through rolling, rolling, patting, rolling, pushing, shaking and other techniques rolled five times in a row, after unfolding can form a two-meter by three meters thin as silk, almost transparent large dough pieces, and then through the chopping, turning and other technical processes can form a semi-finished product with more than fifteen layers of flowers, and finally fried to moisten the pulp, so that the finished product is like a jade carving, crystal clear. If you put a newspaper under the noodles, you can see the words on the newspaper through the noodles, which is irreplaceable by modern machinery and equipment, and is an extremely valuable historical heritage and food cultural heritage. Dong Shuyuan in the demonstration of rolling noodles, the technique is flowing and skillful, a dough through the rolling, rolling, patting, rolling, pushing, shaking and other techniques five times in a row to form a semi-finished product, it takes only three minutes, when the noodles unfold like silk, giving people a sense of beauty. These production techniques are the crystallization of the experience and wisdom of generations of hemp sugar and the embodiment of Dong Shuyuan's continuous improvement of traditional skills by master hemp sugar, in food culture it is higher than Shanxi noodle cutting, northwest ramen and other handicraft skills, its traditional skills and cultural heritage and superb handicraft skills, so that hemp sugar This Tangshan specialty has experienced a hundred years and has been passed down to this day.
At present, Master Dong Shuyuan, the inheritor of the new honey hemp sugar production technology, is working with her colleagues to continue to study hard, develop new hemp sugar series brand products, and actively deepen and improve the hardware of the factory, taking advantage of the superior geographical location of the factory area, with the development of earthquake monument square, Kailuan Mine Geopark and Danan Lake, to build a museum for the display of traditional handicraft skills of honey hemp candy products, forming a traditional food culture tourism circle that combines revolutionary traditional education with leisure entertainment and food culture. Meet the different needs of the people. As the inheritor of the "hemp sugar making technique", Dong Shuyuan also pays attention to the protection of traditional skills without loss, so that the hemp sugar production skills can be passed on to others, so that the golden plaque of the "Hemp Sugar King" will always shine.