The Lili culture is extremely rich, and the food culture is even more unique. The Lili people are a people who choose mountains to live, and due to the influence of the living environment, they have formed a unique food culture. The Lili people love to drink alcohol, so their daily diet is inseparable from wine. Next, let's take a look at the food culture of the Lili people.
The Food Culture of the Lisu people is extremely rich, including delicious dishes such as Kuoju Ore, Bitter Buckwheat Rice Dipped in Honey, Pipa Meat, Indica Rice Dumplings, Boiled Suckling Pig and so on. Most of the people living in alpine areas eat grain and buckwheat as the main food. Vegetables include cabbage, small greens and taro, especially taro is loved by the Lisu people, and each family must be planted, which can be used as a vegetable and a grain. Usually, Lisu people rarely put oil and salt when cooking rice, and only dip a little salt when they eat it. Except for killing animals and sacrificing ghosts or New Year's Eve, they rarely eat meat, and occasionally hunt wild animals, and they must also be divided equally in their own villages or families.
Baogu is a staple food of the Lisu people. The Lisu people take the large and plump bun grain to the rice mill and crush it, remove the skin on the bun grain seeds, and grind it into a grain of sand (called "bao grain sand"), soak the bun grain sand in water, put it in a pot to add water, add ham (or bacon), four seasons beans, vegetables and other things to cook, eat a different flavor, is the Lisu people's favorite food.
The cooking method of the Lisu people is mainly to cook the meals together, when cooking, first put the grain into the pot and boil, replace the water twice, and put in the green vegetables, cabbage, etc. when it is almost ripe, and cook until the dish is rotten. At the time of meal, the housewife is given an average of one large wooden bowl per person according to the size of the family population. The Lisu side food includes a variety of meat, eggs, fish, pork, beef, birds and other favorite roasts, which is the traditional method of eating meat by the Lisu people. Whenever there is a New Year or a wedding celebration, the pigs are slaughtered.
The living utensils of the Lisu people are relatively simple, most of them cook rice with three stones and earthen pots, a few rich people use iron pots and iron tripods, and the average family does not have ceramic bowls, most of them use wooden spoons and wooden bowls, and wooden barrels or bamboo tubes for backwater.
Lisu families are beekeeping, as few as 4, 5 groups, more than a dozen groups, every autumn, every family brews wine, the raw materials used in addition to corn, sorghum, but also like to use weeds, and weed wine is the best. When brewing wine, the raw materials are first mashed, steamed and then put in the altar of wine and medicine, and after 10 days, they can be opened and drunk, the degree is not high, light and mellow, and has the effect of quenching thirst and refreshing.
Lisu people like to drink water and wine, every year in September and October after the harvest of grain, people take grain, sorghum and barnyard as raw materials, mashed and steamed, put in wine and medicine, canned and sealed, after dozens of days can be unsealed and brewed. After unsealing, the lees are stirred in warm water, and the host can taste it first and then filter it into the wine glass to toast the guests. The lees can be mixed two to three times. The highest etiquette of the Lisu people to treat guests with wine is to drink wine for two, commonly known as drinking "concentric wine". When drinking, the host and the guest of honor each hold up the wooden bowl in one hand, and drink it at the same time, indicating that the host and guest are intimate and affectionate.
In addition, the Lisu people like to drink a kind of hemp seed tea. When making hemp tea, first put the hemp seeds into the pot and roast them on low heat, then mash them into boiling water and boil for 6-7 minutes, remove the drainage residue, and the soup is still boiled in the pot with salt or sugar to drink. Hemp seed tea is white, and drinking more can be as intoxicating as drinking alcohol. The Lisu people in the Gongshan area, influenced by the local Tibetan way of life, also have the habit of drinking butter tea.
Every kind of Lisu people's food contains a deep culture, drinking its food without knowing its connotations is like chewing wax, which can fill the stomach without knowing its way, although the five flavors are delicious, but it is not satisfactory.