A legend on the tip of a tongue for four hundred years
A journey of constant updating
A long-established brand
Gives us a mellow taste
Memories from year to year
"Shaped like a flower, it resembles a brocade, and the mouth is full of life at the entrance." During the banquet, he looked at the color of joy and did not ask questions since then. This product should only be in heaven, and it is rare to smell it on earth. In ordinary life, he is not good at praising the taste, and everywhere he goes, he will say the king. This poem praises the Tangshan specialty that has been passed down for more than 400 years - honey and candy.
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Tangshan hemp sugar has a history of more than 400 years, originated from the Ming Dynasty Wanli period, native to Cao Xueqin's hometown - Jidong Tangshan rich old stump.
It is impossible to verify when the "Guangsheng" was opened by the Zhang family, but the earliest record found in the old accounts is that in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty Wanli Calendar, the Ancestors of the Zhang Family lived in Zhongshen Prefecture (now Shen County, Hengshui City) in Hebei Province, and then moved to Qishuzhuang in Fengrun County, Tangshan to settle down due to the disaster, and continued the production and distribution of "Guangsheng" hemp candy. Although Tangshan Hemp Sugar has developed many branches of the brand now, the most authentic is "Guangsheng". After generations of inheritance, the "Guangsheng" long-established hemp sugar brand has been carried forward. The current heir is Mr. Zhang Guorong of Qishuzhuang, Fengrun District, Tangshan City.
Hemp sugar evolved from the row forks in the eastern Jidong region. At that time, people liked to use sugar and noodles and sesame fried forks as festive food during the New Year's Festival. About a hundred years ago, the pastry shop "Guangsheng" put this kind of dim sum loved by the people into the market. At that time, there were two kinds of forks on the market: one was fried with sugar and noodles, and then fried with sesame seeds; the other was first fried in oil and then poured with honey juice. Both forks have their own advantages and disadvantages, the fried fork is hard and crispy, and the honey sauce fork is soft and skinny. "Guangsheng" in the business process of the integration of two kinds of forks in the practice, carefully developed, and absorbed the Beijing pastry "honey supply" pouring method, to produce today's flavor of the famous food - honey hemp candy.
In July 2009, the "Guangsheng" honey hemp sugar was officially included as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. In June 2012, "Guangsheng" honey hemp sugar was awarded the title of "Famous Local Specialty of Hebei Province". From 2013 to 2018, "Guangsheng" honey hemp sugar has been exclusively interviewed by CCTV three times and broadcast in prime time. In October 2016, it was awarded the "Most Beloved Tangshan Daimyo" by the Tangshan Municipal Government. In August 2019, the "Guangsheng" honey hemp sugar was listed as a list of yanzhao old brands.
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"Guangsheng" honey hemp sugar selection ingredients are extremely exquisite, refined white noodles, small ground sesame oil, high-quality honey, plus osmanthus flowers, caramel and other accessories, without any additives and preservatives, and added more than 400 years of ancestral mysterious recipes, making it more mellow in taste. Its production process is also a pure handicraft inherited from history, including the process of noodles, kneading, waking up, boiling pulp, rolling, frying, pouring, pulp control and so on. Light molding includes rolling pieces, rolling skin, chopping agent, lemon flowers and other more than twenty large and small processes, and need to be made in one go, a dough agent unfolded like a sheet, thin as silk, almost transparent large dough pieces, after the net flower molding in the shape to make a petal shape, from a distance like the first bloom of peony, close to see like a brocade flower.
From the perspective of production technology, honey hemp sugar itself is a handicraft, which not only condenses the wisdom passed down from generation to generation by the working people for hundreds of years, but also is a direct display of traditional Chinese handicrafts. Its craftsmanship and cultural heritage and superb technology make the hemp sugar specialties for a hundred years, passed down to this day, the delicacy and high requirements of each process are different from other foods, pure manual operation is difficult to be replaced by modern technology, is an extremely valuable historical heritage and food cultural heritage.