Wash the yellow rice leaves and prepare to pat the yellow rice dumplings. Photo by Yang Tao
Zhou Xianqiong is cutting brown sugar. Photo by Yang Tao
Zhou Xianqiong put the cut brown sugar into the glutinous rice dumplings to speed up the melting. Photo by Yang Tao
Pour the ground rice milk into the basin. Photo by Yang Tao
Pour the glutinous rice into the rice milk. Photo by Yang Tao
Stir in the brown sugar, rice milk and glutinous rice. Photo by Yang Tao
The mixture of mixed brown sugar, rice milk and glutinous rice is patted into the square to facilitate the shaping of the yellow rice. Photo by Yang Tao
The mixture of mixed brown sugar, rice milk and glutinous rice is cut into squares to form the prototype of yellow rice. Photo by Yang Tao
Zhou Xianqiong's family, children and neighbors helped Bao Huangcang. Photo by Yang Tao
The countryside of Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, still inherits a variety of New Year customs, among which the shooting of Huangshu is one of the remaining local New Year customs, with a strong local atmosphere, and has become the most worried hometown affair for the migrants during the Spring Festival. On February 2, Zhou Xianqiong, 74, of Fulong Village, Cotton Slope Town, Naxi District, got busy early in the morning, soaking glutinous rice, steaming glutinous rice, grinding rice syrup, mixing brown sugar, patting yellow rice, cutting yellow rice... From the morning to the afternoon, I have just begun to wrap the leaves. Among them, shooting yellow rice is a technical work, generally according to the ratio of 1:1:2, one pound of brown sugar, one pound of rice (refining), 2 pounds of glutinous rice. There is too much rice milk, too soft to be easy to clump. Zhou Xianqiong feels that the New Year's shooting of huangshu is a "big event" in the family, and this custom has been adhered to in her husband's family for hundreds of years.