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Tongjiang tremella enjoys a long history. It start to be known in Ming Dynasty for its title” royal healthy food” and to be famous in later Qing Dynasty for Cxi's diarrhea. Deling, the woman officials in Qing Dynasty, once described the tongjiang trmella in her <yuxiangpiaomiao> that: In china, there are many dishes famous as Jiao dishes. Among them, the Sichuan province's dishes are the most expensive and popular. Always, a small box of tremella can be paid by more than 10 liang silver. For the common people, even they like to pay more to get the good quality, it is always not that easy, because the best quality is always collected by the local officials giving to the Cixi as a gift. They hired to search the best tremella whole year to flattery the emperor's mother.
If we say the royal family member, Sichuan official and lady-in-waiting is to expand the popularity of tongjiang tremella at home, the adventurous Englishmen is pushing to make it famous abroad. As the historical statistics, 7 th year of the Republic(1918), 8 Englishmen (including Chinese Englishman) all way come to Chenhe, peiyang for the tremella production and purchase. They live in Chenshengzhai's home for half an month, and then leave quickly for hongdeng church's movement. In the summer of 13 th year of Republic( 1924), Alid Smith, one English godfather, visit from the duanhuang for relic to peiyang for forl rock. When leaving, he use his silver coin to purchase the tremella one businessman Quxingang(the leader fo peiyang district at that time). He take it as the gift for his friends and relatives when he is back. |
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