Wearing a blue sea shirt, a red scarf tied around the neck, wearing a small military green cap, two big boys in Changsha walking street stride forward. Onlookers wondered: how is the dress of the little red soldier? Is it a movie?

They're just selling popsicles.

This scene about the old ice lolly "movie", is Changsha "old indigenous" -80 female boss Liang Sheng "director", "when I was a child I loved to eat this big mung bean ice lolly, now no, so I want to this old Changsha memory, little by little dig out."

Wearing a red scarf to sell ice lolly in the streets

The scorching sun, the crowd hurried. Changsha city center of the most prosperous pedestrian street, two "pattern beautiful men" immediately attracted countless eyeballs. They were dressed in standard blue sea shirts, tied around their necks with bright red scarves, and wore a small military green hat with a glittering five-pointed star logo and a crossbody bag with the slogan "Serve the people", which drew many people's exclaims: "How can they be dressed as red soldiers?" Are they shooting a movie?"

"We sell popsicles! The original Changsha old Popsicle, the taste in my memory." Looking forward, I noticed that they both had an old foam Popsicle box hanging from their chests, neatly filled with mung bean popsicles.

Pulling the Popsicle Lang talked about a childhood game

Two "Popsicle Lang", one called Zhou Han, one called Zhao Mingming, two people so "nostalgic" shape immediately attracted numerous "unknown truth masses" onlookers, many people did not ask the price of Popsicle directly picked up to eat, "um, Like the taste of the year." There are many young sister Tuo after seeing them, without saying a word surrounded, asking for photos and phone calls.

"Even the wrapping paper is simple and nostalgic Popsicle paper, not that kind of plastic wrapping paper." After the 1950s, Tang ŠÖš² peeled back the paper and found that the Popsicle was really different from the cold drinks on the market. "It is a big mung bean Popsicle, I used to eat it when I was young."

And the sea shirt, red scarf, red star hat, in today's popular retro tide, also began to be hot. A woman born in the 1970s with a 3-year-old child was walking in the street, immediately was "impressed" by the "flavor" of the clothes, and simply pulled Zhou Han to talk about "those things in those years", which lasted for half an hour. From the rolling hoop to hopscotch.

Post-80s girl and 1,000 old popsicles

Liang Sheng, born in 1984, worked as a Japanese translator in Suzhou after graduating from university and returned to Changsha at the beginning of this year. In April, when she and her high school classmates had dinner in a restaurant, they talked a lot, from high school to primary school, and finally stayed on the topic of mung bean popsicles. "We all love to eat those popsicles, but it's a pity that we don't have them anymore." So she came up with the idea of making her own popsicles and selling them.

She still remembered that when she was a child, ŠÖš² was the old Popsicle shop in Yunan Street. Twenty years later, ŠÖš² still lived there. She and her classmates learned from ŠÖš² that all the Popsicle sticks were bought from Changsha Popsicle Factory, whose old address was at Changsha Railway Station. After two days of searching, she found a worker who made Popsicle sticks and got the secret formula: 100kg of water plus 10kg of sugar, 10% starch, saccharin and coloring.

"Now you can't add coloring and saccharin." Liang Sheng gave up the old recipe, bought a Popsicle machine, began to cook mung beans, put sugar, research and development, "asked many friends to taste, in the end which is the taste of memory, it is estimated that more than 1,000."

Then she posted a message on the Internet to recruit salespeople. The sea shirt and red scarf, the nostalgic shape, is also from childhood memories, "want to copy the memories of that year, through this way, belong to the post-70, post-80 memories, little by little dig out."

Three dollars a piece, some people do not ask the price, directly to taste, "and the taste of the same as before." The reporter saw that only two hours yesterday afternoon, two or three hundred ice lollies were sold.