Zhu Pinzhai, the earliest seller of pear paste candy in Shanghai history, was founded in the fifth year of Qing Chengfeng. It is said that Zhujiajian Island's family has a secret recipe, which is authentic and carefully prepared. Therefore, after the opening of "Zhu Pinzhai", the business has been very prosperous, and its pear cream sugar and medicine pear cream are deeply loved by the public. At first, "Zhu Pinzhai" was run by Mrs. Zhu. She could judge the illness according to the customer's cough, prescribe the right medicine and distribute pear cream candy. Later, the business of "Zhu Pinzhai" was taken over by her son Zhu Cixing, and the trademark of "Zhu Laotai" was registered. In order to meet the needs of consumers in Shanghai metropolis at that time, Zhu Cixing began to study the autocratic high-grade pear toffee. This pear toffee not only contains drugs for relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but also contains valuable tonics such as ginseng, velvet antler, cinnamon, Schisandra chinensis, acanthopanax senticosus and ganoderma lucidum. , once launched, it was widely praised. He also accepts customization, taking each dose of 25 kg as the material, focusing on customization, serving the mansion gang, prescribing the right medicine, telephone contact, home delivery, or giving it as a gift. At that time, the famous Peking Opera artist Qiu and everyone liked to eat "Zhu Pinzhai" pear candy. They bought more than a dozen boxes at a time and became frequent visitors to Zhu Pinzhai, turning pear toffee and medicinal pear cream into high-grade food integrating gift giving, leisure and medical treatment.
The most distinctive feature of our group selling pear toffee is the "Yongshengtang" pear toffee shop in Qingxue Square of the Old Town God Temple, which was founded in the eighth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. "Yongshengtang" sells all kinds of pear paste candy, and the store advocates that father and son have also created a way to sell candy now, which is called "frustration" and "text selling" in the jargon. They put a charcoal stove in front of the sugar stall, and a big copper pot for boiling pear cream sugar was put on the stove. The sugar seller kept stirring in the copper pot with a long bamboo tube in his left hand, so that the sugar in the pot didn't stick to the bottom, and crushed the long flat iron with a ruler in his right hand, and crushed the medicine into powder with an iron bar and piled it in a small wooden plate. When the sugar in the pot is boiled to a certain degree, he will put the medicine.
There is also a famous pear flower candy shop-Deshengtang, located in the north of the Old Town God Temple, which was founded in the 30th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. Its owner is Cao Derong, an apprentice of Yongsheng Hall, and later opened his own shop. In order not to forget the kindness of Yongshengtang, he named it Deshengtang, specializing in Chinese medicine and improving the formula of pear paste sugar.
After 1949, the people's government organized "Zhu Pinzhai", "Yongshengtang" and "Tang De" at the climax of public-private partnership in the 1950s, and all kinds of pear candy produced continuously passed through various famous shops and vendors inside and outside the Old Town God Temple to meet the needs of different consumption levels. Due to the introduction of advanced technology on the basis of traditional technology, not only many new varieties have been developed, but also the quality of pear paste sugar products is more reliable. Pear cream candy is a unique local flavor food. After continuous efforts from generation to generation, it has enjoyed a high reputation in Shanghai today.