Now people love to eat snacks, so what snacks did the ancients usually eat?

Sugar-coated haws are strung with snow red and wrapped with sugar, bright red and bright. Just "temptation" is enough to arouse people's desire, and the sweet and sour taste has always been a favorite snack in the streets and lanes.

Snacks eaten in ancient and modern times include peanuts, fennel beans, fried pork chops, sesame candy, peanut cakes and sesame cakes. I'll probably list these. There are many kinds of food and snacks. Naturally, there are many snacks that have been handed down to this day, such as candied haws, rice cakes, candied fruit, Tang Hua, Guiling Ointment, roasted sweet potatoes, etc., which are still very popular today.

Much like Chinese medicine's Fuling tablet, it is called "Fuling cake". This traditional cake was recorded in the books of the Southern Song Dynasty, which means that people in the Southern Song Dynasty had already eaten poria cocos cakes. Southerners love figs, which are delicious when eaten raw, but they are definitely better when made into dried silk. Sweet and sour fig shreds wrapped in white oil paper are believed to be many people's childhood memories? Unfortunately, it is rare now.

There was a "honey frying bureau" in the Northern Song Dynasty, which specialized in all kinds of honey frying and sugar frying. Similar to today's preserves, flowers, fruits and other kinds of honey or sugar are used. The palace is beautifully made, and there are carved flowers on the candied fruit. It is called sugar ball in Fengyang, Anhui. Sugar-coated haws are traditional snacks in China. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in malt syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, and the sugar is thin and hard. I believe that stirring sugar (that is, stirring maltose into a ball with a stick) should be one, and so should melon seeds and peanuts.

In fact, the ice in summer comes from freezing for three or nine days in the cold. In order to relieve the heat, the ancients stored the ice and snow in winter, and then took it out in summer to cool down or ice fruit drinks. Qu Yuan, a famous poet in the Warring States Period, once said: "It is more refreshing to drink cold when it is low." In winter, the ancients would take ice from the frozen river, and then people would transport the ice to the cellar dug in advance for preservation.