It read originally with the dish of China and sheep's () like the character. It hardens with the gelatin of meat in cooling though this is a kind of soup that boils the mutton, and it enters the state of the congealed food naturally.
It is assumed that the one that the red bean was used as a lenten fare instead of mutton became the prototype of the sweet jelly made from bean jam in Japan because eating meat is prohibited by commandments and five commandments in Zen sect though it was told from Kamakura Period to Japan by the Zen priest in the Muromachi age. It is done according to another theory even if "Liver" and "" are confused, and it came to be called, "Sweet jelly made from bean jam" when "Hitsgekimo long ages" that is the cake to have the shape of sheep's liver is told Japan by China.
The sweet jelly made from bean jam that uses various products of nationwide various places exists besides this, and it is widely familiar now as the souvenir and refreshments.
Moreover, the manufacturing sales are being done by China as for the one of the fruit flavor to which sweet "Sweet jelly made from bean jam Yancan yánggēng" that used a similar red bean and chestnut to the one of Japan in Tienchin and Beijing added a peculiar haw, peach, and apple to China, etc. besides the manufacturing sales are done.
