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What are the morals and symbols of sugarplums?

The moral and symbol of sugar gourd is happiness and reunion.

Sugar gourd from a distance looks like a string of beautiful beads, very festive, and one of them are round, symbolizing that the person who eats it will have a reunion later in life. It is more common in the northern winter, usually skewered with hawthorn, sugar thin frozen hard, eat and sour and sweet.

Features

Ice Sugar Gourd is a traditional Chinese snack that originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. Sugar gourd is a common snack in winter in the north, usually strung with hawthorn and frozen hard with sugar thinning, it tastes sour, sweet and icy.

Successful ice sugar gourd, out of the pot after the outside of the wrapped sugar will be quickly cooled, bite is crunchy, completely non-stick teeth. To achieve this effect, boiling sugar is the most critical, when boiling must pay attention to the fire, the fire is not easy to sticky, eat will be stained teeth.