In pics: ancient method to manually produce brown sugar

A worker collects sugar plate at a brown sugar workshop in Hongkou Village of Xitan Township in Fu'an, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 10, 2017. People here use the most ancient method to manually produce brown sugar. Sugarcane juice extracted from sugarcane is boiled and continuously stirred in a pot until it becomes syrup in four hours.(Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)