Beijing's fruit preserves are made from the imperial palace. In order to ensure that the emperor can eat fresh fruit all year round, the chefs will soak the fruits of each season in honey, so that the emperor can eat them at any time. Later, the production method came from the palace and Beijing had workshops dedicated to producing fruit
Beijing's fruit is known as the beijing-style fruit, which is a specialty of Beijing and is famous for its Chinese and foreign countries. Our country USES honey to marinate fruit, vegetable history long, early in the spring and autumn period and the warring states of the text record, to The Three Kingdoms period already has lotus seed, lotus root slice, winter melon bar and so on candied fruit. In order to store the fruit in the tang court, the court began to call it "honey frying". Sucrose production in song dynasty, added sugar - stained orange cake, sweet ginger, etc. For the difference, the honey is made of candied fruit, made of sugar called dried fruit.