The sisters-in-law put the five-color glutinous rice in the words "March 3".
Colored glutinous rice soaked in water from different plant juices.
The sisters-in-law work together to pick maple leaves.
In daily life, eating is a very common thing. There are many "types" of rice, such as claypot rice, braised pork rice, Yangzhou fried rice and so on. In Longsheng Autonomous County, there is a kind of rice called "five-color glutinous rice".
"March 3" is approaching, in the Jiangkou Group of Chengling Village, Jiangdi Township, Longsheng Autonomous County, Zhao Shuanglian, a sister-in-law of Panyao who lives on the mountain, calls friends to prepare for the production of five-color glutinous rice.
Go up the mountain to pick maple leaves, and pick dense ...... by the river The sisters-in-law's baskets are filled with plants used to dye glutinous rice. Black, yellow, red, purple and the original white are the traditional colors of five-color glutinous rice, and the dyed plants correspond to four common plants in Guilin: maple leaf, dense grass, red and blue grass, and Guanyin grass. Zhao Shuanglian cleaned the maple leaves picked up, chopped them and boiled them with water, the juice was black, poured into a basin of water, and soaked in glutinous rice while it was hot.
"To dye the color to look good, you need to soak it for at least 5 hours, so to make five-color glutinous rice, it is best to start making it the night before, so that the glutinous rice will be soaked overnight, and the color will definitely be good the next day. Zhao Shuanglian said. The same procedure is followed for other plants.
In the colorful glutinous rice soaked by Zhao Shuanglian, the reporter found an extra kind of green glutinous rice. In this regard, Zhao Shuanglian said proudly: "Green glutinous rice is actually very easy to make, and blue juice mixed with yellow juice can turn into green juice." By mixing dyes like this, you can also get more colored juice and make more colorful sticky rice. ”
After the glutinous rice is soaked, Zhao Shuanglian brought a large wooden bucket, put the five-color glutinous rice into the bucket, steam it in the pot, steam it for about 2 hours, and the glutinous rice will be steamed. When you open the lid of the pot, the rice is fragrant, and the five-color glutinous rice is bright in color, which makes people feel happy to look at.
The hot glutinous rice was put in a ventilated place to cool slightly, and Zhao Shuanglian took a large dustpan, scooped out the glutinous rice of different colors with a rice spoon, and piled it on the dustpan. Several sisters-in-law sat around and put a little bit of glutinous rice of different colors together to form a colorful glutinous rice ball. The reporter got a glutinous rice ball, chewed the glutinous rice carefully, the glutinous rice of different colors with a slightly different plant fragrance, and then took a big bite of the glutinous rice ball, and the soft glutinous rice brought a full sense of satiety.
It is understood that five-color glutinous rice is also known as flower rice and black rice. Although the traditional five colors have different meanings in different ethnic groups and regions, what remains unchanged is the prayer of the children of each ethnic group for a good harvest in agriculture and the prayer for good luck in life.
Source: Guilin Daily