What is the origin of ice candy gourd?

A hawthorn round and red, wrapped in a layer of shiny sugar coating outside the entrance, sweet and sour, soft and sweet to the heart, this string of sugar gourds, I seem to see the sunlight and moonlight gaze, morning dew breeze dust and mud, rain, sweat and tears, as well as mole crickets, ants from the string of sugar gourds, I tasted out of the flavor of the home, it is the taste of simplicity, the taste of the down-to-earth flavor, the taste of the nation.

The hawthorn is known to the old and the young, and it is sweet and sour. A bamboo crosses a thousand years, and then shapes the ice body to cause dreaming. The only thing I've known for two years is this thing, a string of crystal red reflecting the heart.

Ice candy gourd (traditional Chinese snacks) ice candy gourd, also known as sugar gourd, in Tianjin, also known as sugar dun child, in Anhui Fengyang called sugar ball. Ice sugar gourd is a traditional Chinese snack, it is the wild fruit with bamboo skewers into a string after dipping malt sugar diluted, sugar diluted in the wind quickly harden. A common snack in northern winter, it is usually made of hawthorn skewers with frozen hardened sugar thins, and tastes sour, sweet and icy.

In the Song Dynasty years will begin the ancient practice, "Yanjing Years and Years" records: ice sugar gourd, is a bamboo stick, through the mountain red, begonias fruit, grapes, hemp yam, walnuts, bean paste, etc., dipped in icing sugar, sweet and crispy and cool. Tea houses, theaters, streets and alleys everywhere, has become a traditional Chinese snack. Ice sugar gourd has appetizing, nourish the face, increase wisdom, eliminate fatigue, clear heat and so on.