It's the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night again, and I want to eat bean candy in the middle of the night.
Tonghai County, which belongs to Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is located in the south-central part of the province, on the Huji Plain on the shore of Qilu Lake, in the east of Yuxi City, bordering Huaning County to the east, Asan County and Hongta District to the west, Shiping County and Jianshui County of Honghe Prefecture to the south, and Jiangchuan County to the north.
As early as the Neolithic Age in Tonghai County, there were ancestors living and breeding on the shores of Qilu Lake. In the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao opened the "Tonghai City Road", set up tonghai town, set up the governor of Tonghai, unified the southern Yunnan region, and opened the human wind of the tonghai. The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were counties along each other. In December 1949, Tonghai and Hexi were peacefully liberated, and in 1956, the former Tonghai County and Hexi County were merged into Qilu County, which is still called Tonghai County in 1958.
Tonghai County has a rich cultural accumulation and rich cultural heritage, and has the reputation of "Lile Famous State".
And Tonghai County's famous specialty products, when counting bean sugar.
Bean sugar
Bean candy is a traditional product with a long history in Tonghai, Yunnan, known for its "fragrant, sweet, crispy, crispy, and dregs-free in the mouth". It is made of high-quality soybeans as the main raw material, plus sugar, caramel and other seiko. The layer is as thin as paper, the color is white as milk, it is sweet and not greasy, crispy and crispy, and it is very refreshing.
Tonghai County famous specialty products, when counting bean sugar. At present, bean candy has been developed from handmade production by family workshops to mechanical production in pastry factories, and has gone inside and outside the province, going abroad and exporting to Southeast Asian countries.
origin
This highly acclaimed product, from its formation to the finished product, is very accidental, which was made by the ancients after being inspired on the march and improved by generations of processing.
Legend has it that it was created by the Mongolian Iron Horse. During the long-term conquest and long-range raids, the brave and fierce Mongolian iron horse could not carry more food, so he had to mash the barley, soybeans into noodles and wet brown sugar in dry food bags. In the bumps, the fried noodles wrap the brown sugar layer by layer to form a lump, which is the prototype of the bean sugar. In 1252 AD, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, led his troops to the south, and Tunbing Qutuoguan ruled southern Xinjiang, and this sugar flowed into Tonghai, and the production process was improved from generation to generation by contemporary masters. After the Mongol army entered Yunnan, they also liked to use it as a snack. In their garrisons, this simple snack was gradually imitated by other nationalities, and everyone was willing to use it as a dry food to fill their hunger after going up the mountains and going to the sea.
In this way, in the process of passing on, people continued to process and improve, and finally became a delicacy, which was named "bean sugar". In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the bean sugar production industry (formerly Jiulong Town, Hexi County) was mass-produced and became famous for a while. Today, it has more than 750 years, which can be described as a long history and a long history.
develop
Then the development of bean sugar was not smooth. At first, the dish could not be sold well because of the inability to improve the packaging. Some people used to pack it in white iron boxes and bring it to Hong Kong to give gifts to relatives and friends, but after several turnovers, after being transported to Hong Kong by land and water, they have broken into a ball of noodles and lost their taste. Later, with the use of plastic film, its packaging problem was solved. Manufacturers can seal the packaging with special plastic bags, extending its shelf life, sales have soared, and the reputation has also been greatly enhanced.
It is understood that the county's annual output is more than 100 tons, of which individual manufacturers reach more than 30 tons, which has attracted people's attention and explored its origin. Among them, there are claims from the four families of Hexi Rao, but they are unverifiable and unsubstantiated. This product was found by chance, after hundreds of years of practice by people of all ethnic groups, it has the characteristics of "sweet and crispy", and it is a popular cuisine, which is its origin.
craft
Bean candy is a unique soybean in Yunnan, after careful selection, roasting, crushing, with locally produced caramel and other materials, after high temperature boiling, sugar paste and bean paste folded many times, elaborately made, in Yunnan has hundreds of years of production history. The product bean candy is rich in flavor, crisp and delicious, and the taste is crisper than the candy, which is unique in China. The characteristics of this product are: the more puff pastry layers, the more crispy the product. The local traditional production method, the crisp layer of sugar can reach 18 layers, the product is less crispy, the product is difficult to loosen, the taste is not good.
Source: Sibeijia Public Name, Network, Historical and Cultural City Tonghai
Editor: Western New Media Alliance