The origin of Pear Candy

The pear candy with a long history in China, as long ago as the reign period of Zhengguan〔A.D.627—649, the reign period of emperor Lisi min in Tang Dynasty(A.D618—907) 〕the prime minister , Weizhen, his mother got a cough, yet she was afraid of taking medicine. The son was very worry about her ill and did not get any ideas. Hearing of his trouble, an archiater of the emperor decided to help Weizhen, Firstly, he extracted the sap from the herbal medicine and condensed the sap, then he did not put the pear juice and the crystal sugar boiled together until the mixture became adhesive plaster. After Weizhens mother took the adhesive plaster, she recovered soon. From then on, the archiater used this prescription to cure the people of their chill or cough. This prescription was used in the royal palace for nearly one hundred years and then it was introduced to among the people of Jiangsu province (in east China).