楯（楯）, jiàn, the original meaning is to set off with wine and food. And candied fruit has nothing to do with having food and wine as a farewell. That is to say, the original character of "楯" is not "楯", but " honey fried ". Writing honey fried as candied fruit is a modern wrong way of writing. Today's preserves mainly use honey or syrup to soak the fruit.
Candied fruit , " Dream of Red Mansions ": " Our girl sent me a bottle of candied lychees. "
Honey fried , that is, candied fruit. Meng Yuan of the Song Dynasty, "Tokyo Menghua Lu·Transactions of Ten Thousand Surnames in Xiangguo Temple": " Near the Buddhist hall, the king of the Meng family Taoist temple, Mi Jian, Zhao Wenxiu's pen, and Pan Gumo, determined the two corridors."
As for Mi Jian's Frying originally means boiling to dry and collect the juice (see the previous article "What is the etymology of "fried"?"). " Shuowen ": "To fry, to boil." For example, " Lychee Spectrum ": " Decoction with honey, peel raw lychees, squeeze out the pulp, and then boil them with honey. I know Fuzhou before, use sun-dried and semi-fried lychees The dried ones are fried, yellow in color and delicious. " is a process of boiling in sweet water until the juice is dry. This kind of water is boiled and dried for the convenience of storage.
