Spring has arrived and everything is revived! Under the baptism of spring rain, on the field, by the creek, and on the hillside, there are traces of artemisia everywhere, as well as the industrious figure of artemisia pickers. It, together with him, constitutes bowls of delicious and fragrant rice.
Speaking of the food culture of your hometown, are you still the same sentence "she rice, mung bean flour, oil rice dumplings, rice and tofu..." As a Xiushan person, I have eaten social rice for so many years, but tracing back to the source, how much do we know about the "she" culture?
Since ancient times, she rice has been a kind of food for the Sacrifice of the Han, Tujia, Miao, Dong and other ethnic groups in China. According to the calculation of the trunk branch of the lunar calendar, the fifth day after the spring of each year is the spring society day, and the fifth day after the autumn is the autumn society day, which is around the spring equinox and autumn equinox. 10 days and one penta, that is to say, about 50 days after the establishment of spring is Chunshe Day (this year's Chunshe Day is february 16 of the lunar calendar, March 22 of the Gregorian calendar). Folk customs call it "passing the society", "blocking the society" and so on. The fifth day belongs to the soil, so this day is the day of worship of the land bodhisattva, and people pray for a smooth New Year, abundant grains, and peaceful family luck. As described in the Qing Dynasty's "Bamboo Branches of Tanyang": "After the long spring day, the cure for the deaf is good and the wine is tasted." Wanjia's afternoon cooking smoke rises, and the white rice and artemisia annua society are fragrant. ”
In the past, it was only on the Spring Festival Day that Artemisia annua was picked to make community meals to eat, and now the climate is warming, just after the Spring Festival, artemisia sprouts and grows, and the early people's families have finished the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, and they have begun to make community meals. Under the spring sun, the branches of artemisia weeds grow in clusters all over the wild countryside of the mountains, and the Xiushan people call this artemisia branch artemisia. In addition to artemisia, it is indispensable to be wild onions and cauliflower.
Artemisia annua is best eaten only in the spring, so authentic communal meals can be eaten once a year. So, today we will explore this mysterious cuisine.
Pick the bright green artemisia, wash it with well water and knead it repeatedly on the stone slab, remove the bitter water, wash and chop the side dishes such as green vegetables, garlic seedlings, coriander and mix them together. Then baked in a pot over low heat, it is the main ingredient for making social rice.
After washing, place the wild vegetables in a cool place and let the wind dry the water on them. After controlling the moisture, cut them into small pieces and fry them in a pot until there is no moisture at all (the social rice made from the rural earth stove is the most delicious). Then cut the bacon, dried beans, carrots, peanuts and other side dishes into small pieces of suitable size and set aside.
According to the method of three to one, cook one-third of the sticky rice until it is half cooked, then pour two-thirds of the glutinous rice into the pot and cook it with the sticky rice, and then put the artemisia and side dishes that have been fried in advance into the pot and mix evenly, cover the pot and simmer for half an hour to eat. The social rice cooked in this way has the three flavors of rice, meat and vegetables, the color is crystal clear, the oil is not greasy, its taste is delicious, the aroma is fragrant, soft and delicious, suitable for all ages. And with cold mix folded ear roots, radish shredded... That taste, really no more! Make people have a great appetite, eat a bowl, and want to eat a second bowl...
Usually, the diet of a family has become a feast for relatives, friends and neighbors to eat a community meal. During this period, families are invited, households are invited, cities and villages are filled with the aroma of social meals, and everywhere is the joy and laughter of people inviting people to eat social meals. When I went to whose house I ate a community meal, the host had to bring some back when he left. At that time, the people who went to the social banquet carried the social meal and walked home drunk, which could not help but remind people of the Tang Dynasty Zhang's poem "Sheri": "The rice sorghum under the goose lake and the mountain are fertile, and the guinea pig is half hidden." Mulberry shadow oblique spring society scattered, the family supported intoxicated. ”
Source: Xiushan People, Xiushan Online