Sugar Paper: A Generation's Sweet Memories

In the past when interviewing collectors and focusing on the collection circle, we found that the happiness of collectors comes from their passion for life. Compared with the lively astronomical competition in the auction market, the “small objects” that record the little things in life are even more touching. In the last issue of the Tibetan Lunar New Year in the Lunar Year of the Tiger, we present our readers with an alternative collection of manuscripts in this issue. We hope to give you different collections and experiences.

Sugar paper is the standard of sugar, and the packaging of sweets was once a collection that many children longed for. Colorful sugar papers were sandwiched between big books and exchanged with each other. The happiness of collecting was far more than sugar. Today, it seems that these unique packaging ideas have become memories of many collectors' "sweet".

Sweet and happy collection

Candy is divided into jelly, lump sugar, and three-dimensional sugar. Old sugar paper has "bird sugar", pillow sugar, stick sugar, and pictose sugar. The materials used for sugar paper are classified into "glassine paper" and waxed paper. Collection of old sugar paper is to wash, flatten, register, sort and play the candy wrappers. Senior Sugar was the first to promote "Shanghai Toffee", "Guan Sheng Yuan", "ABC", "Tai Pai", "Sanxi Brand", "Yi Li", "Old Guang Ming", "West District Big House" and "Tiger Brand" "Shanghai old sugar paper has outlined the years of the Chinese confectionery industry. In the 50s and 70s of the last century, paying attention to the purchase of tickets, it was not easy to collect sugar paper. And during the Spring Festival, it is the "big harvest" season of sugar paper. Collection of sugar paper, but a hard thing.

A pair of beautiful candy papers can't be seen, but as long as they are well organized, maybe they can spell out the animal world and the brighter, animation, flowers, Shanghai, Beijing, plain paper, and plastic. There is gold paper on the paper. Organize the sugar papers and follow the information on the old sugar paper to find one. Children love colorful packaging. In the “**” era when politics is very strong, adults wear clothes that are monotonous in black, green, and gray. But the children found a colorful candy paper in a monotonous life. A childish desire for beauty and color could not help but rest on the small candy paper. The finer stitches left over history have become a unique visual art.

Old sugar paper story

The collection of sugar paper basically did not need to spend money, usually go on the road, as long as pay more attention, it may be rewarding, but also can be replaced with other children. There are also many glycosides and sugar-changing papers, and sugar and paper are also divided into threes and sixs. Mickey Mouse toffee has high prices, and its packaging paper is also "gold and expensive." A Mickey Mouse candy paper can replace several fruit candy or other ordinary candy paper. If you can use a collection of sugar paper strings in exchange for a copy of "Quotations", that can add countless pride. Collected Planned Economies The entire old sheet of sugar paper (80 or 90 consecutive sheets) that was left behind due to insufficient raw materials and abrupt policy changes that did not produce or reduce production was the highest level of collection.

Shanghai Toffee, Beijing Crispy Sugar, and Guangzhou Fructose are regarded as the three famous sugars in China, of which “Red Shrimp Crisp” is suitable for all ages. Beijing's small sugar mills and snack stalls used the children's graphic mold to process crunchy sugar as early as the ** years, so the crunchy sugar has an alias of “baby crunchy” in the north. After the public-private partnership, most of Beijing’s private sugar mills were incorporated into Beijing’s No. 1 Food Factory, and in 1963, they created a popular red shrimp crunch. The crumpled sugar paper has long been the traditional way. The yellow paper is used as the background color on the offset paper, and a live red prawn is painted on it.

Is the old sugar paper valuable?

A hand-painted design with a brand new sugar paper labelled “December 27, 1966” was priced at 1,500 yuan, and the old sugar paper was quite worth it. Eight sets of "Chai Zhi Zhai" sugar paper value of 1,200 yuan. Founded in April 1953, Baoding Huimin Sugar Factory has a small amount of toffee and canned sugar. The factory's “letter” has an old sugar paper value of 80 yuan per piece. In that special era, the smashing pattern of the model drama was as good as sugar paper. The patterns were like the resourceful and eloquent A Ching-hung and “The Red Lantern” dressed in red, black skirts and portable teapots. Li Tiemei holds a 5 yuan old piece of candy, including a red light, etc., and reflects the content of the "Vietnam's little heroes beat the US imperialism." There are also "blessings for longevity," "we must liberate Taiwan," etc. It is also a precious variety.

The "Mickey Mouse" candy paper that several generations favored. Last year, Disneyland landed in Shanghai and brought new opportunities to the old candy paper collection. This benefited Shanghai Mickey Mouse's old sugar papers, and prices have risen more than 20 times in half a year.

Representative: Qin Jie

Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary-General of China Collector’s Association Books, Newspapers and Collecting Committee

“Sugar and paper represents a culture that has gradually faded away in modern life. It has become a fascinating part of the life of the materially deprived period. It affects the memories of that era.” – Qin Jie