Walking around Qingyan Ancient Town, seeing the time that has settled on the blue bricks and gray tiles, listening to the whispers coming from the alleys, and of course tasting the unique delicacies from the street stalls... …

Rose sugar should be the most representative snack among the many delicacies in Qingyan Ancient Town!

It is said that the production of rose candy in Qingyan Ancient Town began during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years.

As the name suggests, rose candy is a candy made from roses. As a symbol of love, roses are used as an important raw material for making delicious food here by the people of Qingyan. In order to retain the fragrance of roses, the people of Guzhen carefully pick roses during the blooming season to make fragrant and sweet rose jam. Rose candy is a candy made with rose jam as the center. The outer layer of Qingyan rose sugar is made from local glutinous rice noodles, wheat and high-quality spring water in the ancient town. It is carefully boiled into a maltose syrup. The middle is wrapped with rose sauce filling, rolled into long strips and then cut into small pieces. Sprinkle it before it is dry. Made of sesame seeds and primer. Rose candy is sweet but not greasy, sweet and crispy, chewy and glutinous, and full of fragrance. After eating it, it leaves a fragrant aroma on your lips and teeth and a long aftertaste.

There are many shops making rose sugar in the ancient town, some of which are time-honored workshops with a history of more than a hundred years. Despite the changes of the times, the workshops still follow the tradition of hand-making. From soaking malt, grinding rice grains, washing sesame seeds to boiling sugar, pulling sugar, etc., more than a dozen processes are carried out by the craftsmen themselves, and no care is taken. The craftsmen in the ancient town firmly believe that this hand-made sugar is sweeter and more fragrant than that made by machines. Therefore, it takes more than a dozen processes to make seemingly small rose candy. It is precisely because of the stubbornness and conservatism of the sugar craftsmen that rose sugar, a local delicacy that does not contain any additives and is entirely handmade, can be passed down to this day.

Visitors who come and go, after enjoying the beautiful scenery of the ancient town, always bring a few bags of rose candy back as souvenirs, sharing the fragrance and fragrance of the ancient town’s rose candy with more people...