Yiwu brown sugar making technique

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Yiwu Brown Sugar Making Technique Brown sugar is one of the three famous local specialties of Yiwu. It is made of bamboo sugarcane (green sugar stalks) as raw materials, and the sugarcane juice is squeezed by wooden carts and oxen, and then boiled in iron pots. According to the 1989 "Yiwu County Chronicles" page 118, the county has a long history of sugarcane planting, and the area and output rank first in the province. The brown sugar produced is well-known. It has a history of nearly 400 years. According to research, both the "Yiwu County Chronicles" of Kangxi and Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty have sugarcane. During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Jia Weicheng, the fifth-generation heir of Futang Yanli Village, introduced the production custom of planting sugarcane and making sugar. In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), the brown sugar produced by Yiwu Huangpeijihao won the special prize at the West Expo. The method of squeezing sugar with oxen and wooden carts continued until the 1970s, while the production custom of boiling sugar in ancient iron pots has continued to this day (only the stove has been changed from the ancient five-mouth plum blossom stove to the seven to nine-mouth one-word stove). (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)

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