Phoenix Rong Media, February 24 (reporters Huang Wenyuan and Zhang Ci) "When the swallows come to the Spring Society, the pear blossoms lag behind the Qingming." The time of the Spring Society is generally the fifth day after the Spring Festival, as early as hundreds of years ago, the Northern Song Dynasty had the Spring Society, around the spring equinox every year, there was a tradition of sacrificing the land gods, and now the tedious sacrifice activities have been diluted, but in the Xiangxi Phoenix, this folk custom is still preserved, especially the community meal, which is an indispensable ceremony for the Miao family living in the mountains for generations.
This year's spring seems to have come particularly early, and walking into the fields is already an early spring scenery. In the fields of spring, there is a fragrance of flowers everywhere, but the wild artemisia has a unique fragrance that also guides those who look for it. In the field full of wild artemisia, the Miao sisters, under the guidance of A-ma, are accompanied by the mountains to pick artemisia, and their dexterous hands quickly pluck the tip of artemisia, which is the best part of the whole plant, and the tender tip makes the rice more fragrant. After a while, the bamboo basket was already full of fresh artemisia vegetables.
Cook a pot of community rice, artemisia and wild onion ratio is equal, a large part of the aroma of the community rice comes from wild onions, after picking artemisia, A sisters dug up wild onions, wild onions are also the food of this season, wild onions grow in relatively fertile fields, A sisters can always find them with years of experience. After digging up the wild onions, the ingredients for the community meal were half prepared.
After returning home, everyone washed the wild artemisia and wild onions together, the taste of wild artemisia was bitter, and during the cleaning process, it was necessary to first chop, rub, and then filter out the artemisia juice, leaving only the artemisia residue, and the artemisia residue also retained the fragrance of artemisia.
After the artemisia is cleaned, you need to put it in the oil pot to fry the dried water, and then the prepared bacon and dried artemisia are fried together, the bacon oil is fried out and then the pot is cooked, the pot is put into the water, the water is boiled and put in the proportion of glutinous rice and white rice, the rice soup in the pot is drained and then put in the wild onions and fried artemisia and bacon, stir well and cover the pot, leave a fire in the hearth and cook a small. Between the smouldering cooking of the community meal, the sisters were busy preparing the special dishes with the community rice, the meat and vegetarian combination, and after careful cooking, they achieved a delicious meal.
The process of cooking social rice is not only complicated, it takes a long time, every year before and after the Spring Festival, the simple and traditional Miao family will invite relatives and friends to spend the Spring Festival together and get together to eat a steaming pot of social rice. It is said that the fireworks in the world can most soothe people's hearts, and this pot condenses the social meal of the effort and energy of the cooker, it does not matter the length of time, regardless of the complicated process, because this is a feeling about the hometown, a memory about childhood, many traditional and ancient tastes are gradually lost in the long river of history, but the taste of these memories has become our lingering local memory, because the love contained in these tastes will warm our hearts.
Source: Phoenix County Rong Media Center
Author: Huang Wenyuan Zhang Ci
Editor: Teng Fen