Li Taro

Chestnuts are a common snack in China, but the term "Tianjin Li Gan" is far less famous in China than in Japan. Tianjin Li Gan passes through the anime the third dimension, which can be seen everywhere in the streets of Japan. Tianjin Li Gan appeared in "Crayon Little New", a set of "Li Gan Fire Fist" appeared in "Luan Ma 1/2". Why is Tianjin Li Gan so famous in Japan? In fact, chestnuts shipped China to Japan are exported Port of Tianjin.

Chinese people have a habit of eating chestnuts for a long time. The poet Lu Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty wrote in "Mao Shi · Grass · Fish · Insect Sparse": "There are chestnuts in all five directions... Only the chestnuts in Yuyang Fanyang are sweet have a long taste, but others cannot be familiar with them. Fanyang is now located in the north of Baoding, Beijing, Yuyang is in Miyun.

North China chestnut is mainly produced in Zunhua, Qianxi, Xinglong, Hebei Province. The chestnut production areas in Tianjin are concentrated in Xiaogang Xiaoying in Jixian County, there are also a large number of chestnut trees in the surrounding mountainous areas of Liangxiang in Beijing. According to the Qianxi County Annals, chestnut "has a large output is widely marketed in the city, making it a large-scale urban production".

The person who brought chestnuts into Japan is said to be Chinese Li, who sold chestnuts in the Asakusa area as early as now. In 1914, Tokyo opened a Roasted chestnuts in sugar-coated heated sand shop called "Li Gan Taro", whose founder was Kitazawa Chongzang was closely related to Japan's "Tianjin Li Gan".