As early as the Han Dynasty, there was a Spring Society, and in the late Han Dynasty, there was a Spring Society and an Autumn Society, and since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after the Establishment of Spring has been the Spring Society, and the fifth day after the Establishment of autumn is the Autumn Society. Since ancient times, there have been many ancient poems that describe sheri, such as Wang Anshi's "Ge Yuanfeng", "A hundred dollars can get wine and buckets, although it is not a long drum of sheri", the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Shu's "Wu ChuGe", "This Dynasty Sheri Day stops the needle and thread, and rises to the Zhu Cherry Tree", which are all verses describing the life of the people of Sheri.
Order of the Phoenix Meal
In the Xiangxi region of Hunan Province, every she day, people must sacrifice to the land gods, pray for smooth wind and rain every year, abundant grain, and happiness and health of the family, also known as the society, respect the society, but also live in a kind of food called she rice, used to sacrifice the gods, as a sacrifice. Hunan Xiangxi is a gathering place for ethnic minorities, there are Miao, Tujia, Dai, Dong, etc., of which several Tujia people attach the most importance to the festival day, each family must make social meals, busy is in full swing, Tang poet Zhang Yan's "Sheri" poem: "Rice sorghum fertilizer under the goose lake mountain, guinea pig fence chicken perched half covered." Mulberry shadow oblique spring society scattered, the family supported intoxicated. "It is the best true portrayal of the Society's Day."
The social meals that everyone knows are all local snacks that are eaten when traveling to Phoenix and Xiangxi in Hunan, and there are really very few people who really know. In Hunan Xiangxi and other places, on the day of the festival, people will prepare the things of the festival at home, this day is basically at home, trimming the plough rake, preparing for spring ploughing production, bringing bamboo baskets, carrying baskets, going up the mountain to pick artemisia annua, preparing ingredients for social meals, and sacrificing at night. In order to sacrifice and worship the ancestors, the farmers pick fresh artemisia annua from the mountain field, mash it with stone mortar, rinse it several times with water, remove the bitter taste, then dry it, mix it with green onions and fry it with tea oil, mix it with local specialty fragrant sticky rice and diced Hunan bacon to stir evenly, cook it together, put in the fried dried artemisia annua vegetables when it is half cooked, and then simmer for a while, and the rice will be ready. The taste of the community rice eaten in Phoenix is both the sweetness of glutinous rice, the smoky aroma of bacon, and the fragrance of artemisia annua, and the moment the lid is opened, the aroma is overflowing and the appetite is greatly opened.
The ingredients for making community rice are indica rice, glutinous rice, bacon, artemisia annua, shallots, etc., and the seasonings are tea oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, etc. Before the production of the company's meal, the glutinous rice must be soaked in water overnight, and then fished out the next day and rinsed several times with clean water until the water is not turbid. Pick the young leaves of Artemisia annua, pour out the bitter water in the mortar, add salt to the pot and fry dry. Cut the bacon into cubes, sauté in a pan to remove the oil and set aside. Remove the roots of the shallots and cut into sections and set aside. Stir-fry the sautéed bacon, artemisia and shallots several times, then put out of the pan and put into a bowl. Cook the indica rice in boiling water for 5 minutes and remove. Drain the glutinous rice, stir well with indica, bacon, shallots, artemisia annua, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and steam in the basket drawer. The rice is steamed, and the rice is steamed, and the aroma of artemisia annua is strong, the bacon is full of aroma, and the rice is oily but not greasy.
Xiangxi Society meal, once eaten is unforgettable, occasionally think of it, can only taste.