Where are the honeydew melons? What are their specialties?

Kitchen sugar, also known as kwantung sugar and honeydew melon, is a seasonal snack in winter in northern China, and its main component is maltose.

Generally, the long candy is called "Guandong sugar", and the flat chess piece is called "honeydew melon", which is sometimes wrapped with sesame seeds. Maltose tastes crisp and sweet after freezing, but tough and sticky after heating.

One of the traditional customs of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god is to put the softened kitchen candy on the mouth of the portrait of the kitchen god, so that the kitchen god can "taste the sweetness" and only repay the good of the family the day after tomorrow.

Its unique flavor, sticky, crisp and delicious are deeply loved by men, women and children in Kanto.

In the countryside of Kanto, there is also a special ceremony, that is, sending the kitchen god to heaven on the day of off-year. In the old society, no matter the rich or the poor, as long as they got married, they had to worship the statue of the kitchen god on the wall above the pot, and put couplets on both sides of the statue: "Heaven speaks well, and the world is safe."

Every family regards the kitchen god as a god, which dominates the rise and fall of a family. Because the four seasons live in the kitchen, observing a family's activities naturally becomes the "head of the family."

As early as more than 3,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty began to offer sacrifices to stoves, which became one of the five offerings of the Emperor of Heaven. Written records before the Han Dynasty called it the Kitchen God. After the Tang dynasty, it was also called the chef king. As for Kitchen God and Kitchen God, they are all folk sayings after the Tang Dynasty. Make his professional title and title integrate into one, and become an awesome, lovely and frightening god.

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Guandong sugar is sold in rural areas, cities, streets and markets in Northeast China: "Big sugar, big sugar, crisp and fragrant big sugar". On a square plate, a large ivory candy is generally three inches long and one inch wide and flat as silk. When you put it in your mouth, it is crisp, fragrant and sticky.