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Related stories of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.

According to legend, there was no sugar in Sanyuan County and even Shaanxi Province in the early years, only a sticky stove candy. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a sugar vendor named Liao in Sanyuan City. He usually cooks maltose thinly and exchanges some copper coins to pass the time. When the Chinese New Year comes, they make candy for offering sacrifices to stoves and sell them on the streets. In the twelfth lunar month, he made a lot of stove candy to sell. Zhang Tiezui, a street corner fortune teller, weighed half a catty of kitchen candy, chatted with him and tasted a piece of kitchen candy. Zhang Tiezui was stuck in the mouth by the candy in the kitchen and could not speak for a long time. Finally, he said, "The candy in your kitchen is too sticky, and my iron mouth is stuck.". How can I tell a fortune? " "Liao bathhouse" laughed and joked: "What is the non-stick bathhouse? The kitchen candy made by my family' Liao Kitchen Candy' is famous for being hard and sticky. Whoever eats the kitchen candy I made will stick his mouth tightly, and no one can tell a lie when he gets to Heaven! " "Zhang Tiezui" was stopped and had to shake his head with a wry smile. Li Laohan of grinding bean curd ate his own candy, and only two front teeth in his mouth collapsed! Li Laohan thinks his kitchen candy is too hard. He said irrationally, "How can the kitchen god's front teeth be broken if they are not hard? It's hard to tell him a lie when he goes to the jade emperor?"

Although the words are blunt, as an honest vendor, "Liaozao Sugar" really has a sense of shame. He remembers that this hard and sticky jujube candy has broken the broken teeth of many dolls and stuck the teeth of many dolls for many years. It won't melt when washed with soup, and it is uncomfortable to stick to the gums. So, he sprouted a sweet, crunchy and uncomfortable idea in his heart.

In the evening, when he came home, there was another unpleasant thing waiting for him. It turned out that his only daughter, Guo Hua, 14 years old, broke an upper front tooth while eating stove candy, and a big girl became a "gap". How ugly! Little Polygonum flower was in pain and anger, hiding behind the door and crying for a long time, but her mother refused to persuade anything! The daughter's crying is worse than slapping her in the face. He stood up and swore, "Guo Hua, don't cry, my baby. It's all because sugar is too hard. From now on, I will make a crisp, fragrant and loose candy for you and the dolls. " I want the dolls to drool with laughter when they see the candy I made. "Polygonum hydropiper soup" this sentence let Polygonum hydropiper smile through tears.

Since then, "Liaozao Sugar" has been devoted to the development of crisp and fragrant sugar. But he can't do it well, because he can't jump out of the box of cooking sugar with the locals, even though he is tossing and turning. On the first day of the lunar new year, people are beaming and ready to visit relatives the next day, but they are still scratching their heads to figure out how to make crispy sweet candy. Just then, a well-dressed broken doll entered the door, clamouring for "Sister Guo Hua". Just when Guo Hua was not in the room, Liao Bathhouse grabbed a handful of candy from the kitchen and gave it to Kova from Xi 'an. Unexpectedly, the broken baby pulled out her hand and said, "Who will eat the stone candy that can break people's teeth?" Say that finish, he took out a round candy from his pocket to show off. "Liao jujube soup" lit up and asked, "Where did you buy this sugar?" Kova said: "My mother bought it for me in the provincial capital. Uncle, you also try it. " Said, and handed "Liao jujube sugar" a south sugar and ran out. "Liao bathhouse" looked at the south sugar made of glutinous rice in his hand, and sesame seeds were stuck outside. It's light in his hand, and it doesn't weigh much. He put it in his mouth. It was really crisp, but not crisp. It had many flaws, but it was much sweeter than his own stove candy and syrup, and it didn't stick to his teeth. What is the practice of this South Sugar? He thought. The capital of Xi is a big place, and there must be someone in the south who can make sugar. Why don't you go to Xi 'an and learn from your teacher? After making up his mind, he packed his bags and went south to Xi. It's easy to find a sugar master in the south, but people don't accept apprentices. Yesterday? He works for others, doing odd jobs for free. Seeing that he is honest and persistent in doing business, Master Nantang taught him the skills of making various Nantang sweets all his life without reservation.

Liao Zao Tang thanked the Southern Tang master, widely worshipped sugar makers all over the country as teachers, and humbly asked for advice. This way. In the past few years, he has accumulated a wide range of exquisite sugar-making techniques. According to the requirements of crispness, crispness, fragrance, sweetness and looseness, he selected raw materials and screened the technological methods of sugar production ... After many failed experiments, he finally made a satisfactory crisp and fragrant sugar. This sugar is made into the shape of a drum hammer, which is convenient for dolls to hold with their hands; It is a light golden yellow skin with white sesame seeds evenly stuck on it. After biting, there is a white and delicate honeycomb candy heart inside. Eating in the mouth is crisp, crisp, fragrant, sweet and loose, and biting in the mouth melts. Therefore, he gave this kind of candy a big name called "Liao Hua Tang", which means: Liao's candy melts at the first bite, so that the delicious food will stay in people's mouths for a long time, and it really deserves its reputation. Of course, there is another meaning, that is, the name of this candy is homophonic with my daughter Polygonum, which means that this candy is as lovely as my daughter, and my daughter Polygonum's life should be as sweet as Polygonum, as a blessing to my daughter.

"Liao jujube candy" and "Liao flower candy" are popular in the whole county, with booming business and rolling financial resources? Soon he made a fortune. But he is a man, but he is not greedy for money. He often distributes his money to bankrupt people, victims and refugees. This year, the eight-wai allied forces captured Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi could not escape xi 'an. Dogs can't change eating shit, and Empress Dowager Cixi, who is greedy for enjoyment, is greedy for delicious food everywhere. She made an imperial edict and asked Governor Xi 'an to look for delicious food for him extensively. Among the many tributes that Governor An presented to Empress Dowager Cixi, one was refined "Liaohua Sugar" made by Liao in Sanyuan County. Cixi was full of praise after eating it, because she saw that the shape of sugar was very similar to that of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. He renamed "Polygonum cuspidatum" as "Polygonum cuspidatum". When Cixi returned to Beijing, she also gave Liao's father and daughter flowers and robes. She wanted to take them back to Beijing as "Beijing officials", but Liao's father and daughter politely refused, preferring to serve the people in Sanyuan and make fragrant flowers for a living.

Liao's father and daughter strive for perfection in making Polygonum cuspidatum, and it takes 24 processes to enlarge and beautify the raw materials into Polygonum cuspidatum. Because it is delicious and beautiful, it has a long reputation. Today, it is more youthful. As for Liao's father and daughter, due to the scarcity of surnames, they are all addressed as surname. Over time, their real names are little known. But who doesn't like the delicious "Tang Guohua" that they have worked so hard to create in Guanzhong, the whole country and even the whole world?