Is ice candy gourd a traditional food

Ice candy gourd is a traditional Chinese food, ice candy gourd, also known as sugar gourd, is called sugar duner in Tianjin, and sugar ball in Fengyang, Anhui Province. Ice candy gourd is a traditional Chinese Han snack, is the wild fruit with bamboo skewers into strings dipped in malt sugar dilution, sugar dilution in the wind quickly harden. Common snacks in the northern winter, usually strung with hawthorn, sugar is frozen hard, eat and sour and sweet, but also very cold.

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. In Beijing, the Spring Festival temple fair string of long sugar gourds, the top of a small colorful flag attached to a string of a hundred or so hawthorn fruits, by the red fruits of the bent bamboo stick, held in the hands of a tremor, adding to the festive atmosphere.