Introduction: "Spring Society", a traditional custom that gradually disappears, and the day of spring sacrifice to the land god. In ancient times, there was no fixed day, and the pre-Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin dynasties chose different days. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after the spring is the social day, this year's spring is February 4, the eleventh day of the first lunar month, the fifth day is March 16, and the lunar calendar Is February 23, which is tomorrow. In the past, many places in the country had the custom of spring society, beating the club drum, eating the food club, drinking the community wine, watching the community drama, etc., and now many places have forgotten this traditional festival.
In the east of Guizhou, mainly to Tongren cities and counties and the surrounding Qiandongnan county, every Year in March, when all kinds of wild vegetables have returned to youth, there have been the custom of spring society cooking community rice, community rice has become a local specialty food, a long time ago, people only cooked community rice on the spring society day, and now, cooking community rice is not only done on the spring society day, it can be done in the lunar calendar in February, and the community rice has become synonymous with characteristic rice. March is the season of spring and warm flowers, and enjoying the flowers and eating community meals has become a leisurely life for many people. How to cook the rice, its unique secret method, only circulated in the Qiandong area, as an authentic rural baby in the mountains of Qiandong, I think that good things should be shared with more people, please do a good collection.
Fragrant community meal
In the author's hometown, there is a saying that "spring does not enter the garden, autumn does not enter the field", that is, the spring society does not enter the vegetable garden, the autumn day does not enter the rice field, in order to sacrifice the land god (do not disturb), in order to harvest good vegetables and grain, with local resources to make delicious rice, sacrifice the land, with the development of society, cooking community rice and food community rice has become a gastronomic custom in February of the lunar calendar, what should be done?
Social meals
Recipe and cooking method of she rice
She's rice is also rice, but it adds a lot of ingredients, but it is certainly not as simple as "Yangzhou fried rice". She rice, to give people the first impression is green, as if there is grass, yes, to make the social rice green is the white artemisia and wild onions, other ingredients are: diced meat (bacon), chicken diced, peanut rice, pea rice, carrot diced, chestnut, folded ear root, etc., all ingredients are finely chopped after the rice is half-cooked and then stirred and steamed, it is best to use traditional koshiki to steam rice, so that the rice that comes out of this way, loose at the same time there is a wood flavor, the taste is better. The above ingredients are common social rice recipes, and some people will mix the ingredients according to their own preferences, with some slight differences.
Ingredients for the community meal
Artemisia annua and wild onions in the community meal are essential ingredients
Artemisia annua and wild onions, itself is a good wild vegetable, artemisia annua can not only make social rice, but also a good material for making rice noodles and rice noodles, adding rice noodles and rice noodles of artemisia annua, the taste is unique, and it is liked by many people. Wild onions are the most representative wild vegetables in winter and spring, with a unique aroma, which is a good condiment in the dish, and it is more fragrant after flavoring. The main raw material of social rice is artemisia annua and wild onions, in the author's hometown, less of these two kinds of rice is not called social rice, after adding them, Titian does not say, but also has the characteristics of light green, which is also the most typical feature of social rice.
Wild onions are an essential ingredient for social rice
How to eat the rice
Many people will think, isn't rice used to eat, and what other ways to eat it? Social rice is not the same, like white rice, eating while hot is a common way to eat, suitable for all ages, when eating social rice will eat more than usual. In addition to eating hot, some of the villagers' social rice can be preserved for one or two months without deterioration, the social rice is cooked on the same day, and the ones that cannot be eaten will be dried with dustpans or dried in a baking cage, and then wrapped up with something and put in the refrigerator, and then taken out when you want to eat, steamed again, and the taste has not changed much. During the spring ploughing, some villagers went to work in the fields, and the lunch they brought was the social meal, and they ate and worked hard.
Social meals exist as gifts for the exchange of gifts
In our Qiandong region, the community meal is a unique cuisine, the lunar calendar can be eaten once a year in February, usually, the farmer only makes a community meal, and because the white artemisia and wild onions in the community meal are not easy to find, you need to go to the mountains to find, so people regard the community rice as very precious. Between relatives and friends, when visiting the door, some people take the community meal as a gift, and those who can eat other people's community meals are relatives and friends who have a very good relationship.
Gift society meal
With the development of society, many traditional customs are getting farther and farther away from us, and some even forget, although the Spring Society does not have a fixed date, but in our Qiandong region, people still inherit the custom of eating community meals every year. This custom, which has been passed down for thousands of years, should be passed on well, so that future generations can appreciate the glory of history and traditional culture. Friends, does your hometown have the custom of the Spring Festival? Is there a custom of eating social meals? Welcome to leave a message to exchange and share, Yangchun March, hometown welcome you!
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