What is the ice powder in Chengdu?

Ice powder is a famous traditional snack, which belongs to summer snacks in Sichuan and Guizhou. Cold and sweet, tender and smooth, refreshing, promoting fluid production to relieve summer heat, cooling and reducing fire. As a delicious food in summer, it is favored by people because of its smoothness, transparency, freshness and low price. According to textual research, ice powder began in Wuyang (now pengshan county) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was founded by Wang Weiyuan, known as "Weiyuan Ice Powder" in history. At first, it was only sold in pengshan county, and then it gradually spread to surrounding cities and counties. By the middle of Qing Dynasty, it had spread all over Sichuan, flourished in the late Qing Dynasty and reached its peak during the Cultural Revolution. At that time, many people in Pengshan had several strains of ice powder at home, and the streets were full of ice powder. Pengshan's ice powder seeds were brought to all parts of the country by educated youth, and the hometown of ice powder is famous all over the world.