Shanghai Traditional Confectionery

Shanghai traditional old confectioneries are as follows:

The owner of Guan Sheng Yuan, Xian Guan Sheng, was originally a hawker who set up a stall at the door of a theater in the southern city, selling small foodstuffs such as Chen Pi Plums, plums, beef jerky and so on. Later on, he partnered with others to open a small workshop called Kwun Sang Yuen and set up a small buying department inside the theater. Due to the high quality of homemade food, the business gradually developed. 1922 Guan Sheng Yuan moved to Nanjing Road, the ground floor of the food market department and western food room, the second floor of the food and beverage department to supply food and tea.

Li Nan Ju, originally known as Li Nan Tea House, is a famous store dealing with Cantonese confectionery, with a store in front and a farm in the back, producing and selling its own products. Founded in 1902, the original site in Tiantong Road, then moved to North Sichuan Road, now Pudong Avenue near the intersection of Yuan Shen. When there were 50 employees, the production of a wide range of varieties of Cantonese cakes, bread, oil goods, candy, barbecue, lo mei and cakes, etc., is the twenties Shanghai Cantonese pastry industry in the prestigious one of the four major residence.

Shanghai Cultural Characteristics

Shanghai dialect generally refers to the Shanghai dialect, which is now widely used and recognized as the mainstream common dialect of Shanghai, and Songjiang local dialect is the basis of Shanghai dialect. Shanghai dialect is a new type of urban Wu language, which was formed by the natural fusion of the accents of immigrants from different parts of the Wu-speaking area on the basis of Songjiang dialect after the opening of the port of Shanghai, and it has become the representative and ****common language of the Wu-speaking area.

Shanghai dialect is a strong dialect of the Taihu Lake area of the Wu language, and it used to be the lingua franca of the Wu-Yue region before the 1980s. Since the new century, due to the promotion of Putonghua, the influence of Shanghainese in the Wu-speaking area has decreased. The ability of Shanghai's young generation to master Shanghainese has begun to decline, and some actions to protect Shanghainese have appeared in the society.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Old Shanghai Confectionery