What does "mixed" mean?

Mixed food is a mixture of many kinds of food. It is also one of the essential foods for traditional festivals in China.

Mixed food is popular in Beijing, during the Spring Festival, a variety of dried and fresh fruits are mixed together. It is put in a big box for everyone to eat, so it is called Mixed Fruits. In old Beijing, when the New Year is over, the miscellaneous mixer is a small food that every family must eat when observing the New Year, which is delicious and beautiful.

In the past, when Old Beijing celebrated the New Year, the children's favorite food was not the dumplings and New Year's dishes, but what they wanted to eat and loved to eat the most was the honey offerings and the colorful and various flavors of the miscellaneous mixer in the Buddha's Hall. The first mixed rice originated in the Song Dynasty, and although many new-generation families no longer eat mixed rice as their main snack, most older families still continue the tradition.

Categorization of the mixer:

1, high-grade fine mixer: fresh apricots, peaches, jujubes, cinnamon, lychee, hawthorn, lotus root slices, etc., after the sugar and honey stained juice processed into candied mixer. In the old days, people in the palace aristocratic royal mansion courtyard often eat, but also commonly used as gifts to friends and relatives.

2, mid-range mixer: also known as coarse mixer, which has dried pears, dried apples, persimmon strips, hawthorn strips, crispy dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, and so on.

3, low-grade miscellaneous mixer: the old Beijing called miscellaneous grasp, which are the cheapest melon seeds, peanuts, Boom Crisp beans and so on, it is thicker than the coarse miscellaneous mixer.