Spring weather is dry, many people are prone to throat discomfort, cough. At this time, the old man likes to contain two pieces of crystal sugar in his mouth to produce fluid and quench thirst. However, everyone does not know that this rock candy is said to have been invented by our ancestors surnamed Zou. The world called him Monk Zou.
It is said that this monk Zou was a monk in Suining during the Tang Dynasty. His birth and death years are unknown. He likes to travel and has traveled all over the country. In 766-779 AD, Monk Zou traveled to Umbrella Mountain (now Umbrella Peak Mountain), 30 miles north of Suining City, where he saw beautiful mountains and water, covered with sugarcane fields, and lived on the mountain.

On the basis of summing up the experience of sugar making in other places, monk Zou carefully studied and, after many experiments, pioneered the technology of making sugar cream (crystal sugar) in the cellar, creating a complete set of retort steaming, kettle boiling, urn filling and frosting methods to produce excellent, fragrant and delicious frosting. The advent of rock candy developed by Monk Zou greatly promoted the development of Suining's sugar industry and stimulated the production of sugarcane planting. Suining became a famous frost-making county in the country at that time.

According to the third volume of the General History of China, the Tang Dynasty was rich in icing, and Suining was the most famous, which was said to have been created by Monk Zou. Ice sugar, known as icing sugar in ancient times, is an indispensable ingredient for clearing phlegm and removing fire, suitable for all ages and every household. According to history, originated in Suining. It was Monk Zou who invented rock candy in Suining Umbrella Peak Mountain during the Tang Dynasty. This content is recorded in "Tang Hometown Records", "Suining City Records" and "General History of China" and "Frosting Spectrum.

Among them, the Song Dynasty Suining people Wang Zhuo wrote the "icing spectrum" is particularly detailed. After monk Zou invented sugar, Suining became a famous county of sugar in Tang and Song dynasties. It is said that monk Zou is knowledgeable and likes to travel, and his footprints are all over the country. One day, Monk Zou, riding a small white donkey, traveled to Umbrella Mountain (now Umbrella Peak Mountain) 30 miles north of Suining City. It was the season for planting sugarcane. Looking from the top of the mountain, one side was the wide water surface of the Fujiang River, and the other side was the vast expanse of green sugarcane fields, which was especially spectacular. The knowledgeable monk Zou was not willing to leave, so he decided to stay in Umbrella Peak Mountain to practice.
According to records, the history of planting sugarcane in China can be traced back to more than 2400 years ago. The banks of the Fujiang River in Suining are sandy loam, which is very suitable for planting sugar cane. During the Tang Dynasty, Suining was already rich in sugar cane due to extensive cultivation, but the technology was stuck in tradition and the processing technology was backward, so it could only rely on exposure to extract stone honey.

Monk Zou, who came to Umbrella Peak Mountain to practice, once traveled all over the country. After staying in Umbrella Peak Mountain, he devoted himself to sugar making technology. On the basis of summing up the experience of sugar making in other places, careful research and repeated tests have finally pioneered the technology of scenting sugar cream (crystal sugar), I .e. steaming, kettle boiling, frying, filling urn and taking cream. A set of five-step frost making techniques have been developed to produce icing with excellent color, aroma and taste. Because the sugar cream is like ice cubes, it is known as crystal sugar by later generations.

According to Wang Zhuo's record in "The Frosting Spectrum", Monk Zou needed to buy things like salt, rice, and vegetables, so he wrote it on paper and tied the money to let the donkey carry it to the market. People in the market looked at the donkey with the note and all knew it was Monk Zou's donkey on Umbrella Peak Mountain. After taking the money, they hung the things written on the paper on the saddle and put the donkey back to Umbrella Mountain.
One day, Monk Zou's donkey trampled on the sugarcane field of a Huang family under a mountain, and the Huang family asked Monk Zou for compensation. however, monk zou said, "you don't know that the sugar cane is frosting, which is ten times more profitable. what do you mean by that?" so he passed on the sugar-making technology to this family.

Since then, monk Zou's technology of making sugar cream has spread among the people in Suining, making Suining the first place in the country to produce sugar cream. According to the "frosting spectrum" recorded in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Suining sugar technology in the world's leading position. In the Song Dynasty, Suining sugar industry had been the top five sugar production centers in the country, and Suining became the famous frost-making county in the country at that time.

Due to the extremely developed sugar industry, four-tenths of farmers in the Umbrella Peak Mountain area grow sugarcane, and three-tenths of farmers have sugar workshops. The two sides of the Fujiang River gradually developed into two sugarcane fields. During the sugarcane planting season, the sugarcane fields on both sides of the river are spectacular. In the Song Dynasty, most of the residents of Suining had employment related to icing.
After the Song Dynasty, my country's rock candy developed rapidly. Futang (Fuzhou) in Fujian, Siming (Ningbo) in Zhejiang, Fanyu and Guanghan in Guangdong (the Baishui basin at the junction of Sichuan and Gansu provinces) also gradually came into being. Suining icing is still the crown. In the early years of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Suining icing was the main icing among the thousands of pounds of icing that paid tribute to the court. Monk Zou invented rock candy, which led to the development of Suining's sugar industry. The local people benefited a lot and greatly improved their lives. To thank Monk Zou, he was deized as a Buddha, and some even worshipped his portrait.

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