Rice dumplings
Selected barley with a strong wheat aroma
Tibetans always say that after breakfast, you have eaten rice dumplings and butter tea, and every day is the real beginning. This is not only a part of daily life, but also the inheritance of the national thousand-year-old food culture.
Gannan area has many plateaus, due to terrain reasons, the air is thin, the herdsmen who work here have a large amount of physical consumption, and it is easy to be hungry when working outside, and the rice dumplings can be eaten by hand kneading into a ball, which is not only convenient to carry and store, but also rich in nutrition and high calories, which is very suitable for hunger and cold, so rice dumplings have become one of the staple foods that Tibetan herders must eat every day.
Not only that, but rice dumplings are also the special food of herdsmen in Tibetan areas to entertain distant guests, so if you are a guest in the home of Tibetan compatriots, what should you know when you face the rice dumplings served?
How to eat?
When eating the rice dumplings, put some ghee in a bowl, pour into the tea, add the fried noodles, and stir by hand. When mixing, first use your middle finger to gently pound the stir-fry towards the bottom of the bowl to avoid the tea spilling out of the bowl; then turn the bowl and press the fried noodles into the tea with your fingers close to the edge of the bowl; when the fried noodles, tea and ghee are mixed well, you can knead them into a ball by hand and you can eat. When eating, use your hands to constantly knead in the bowl, knead the dough, and send it to your mouth with your hands. Tibetans generally eat without chopsticks or spoons, but only with their hands.
Tibetan calendar year customs
When tibetans spend the Tibetan calendar year, every family must place an auspicious wooden bucket called "Bamboo Soqima" on the Tibetan cabinet, and the bucket is filled with rice barley (green barley), bad pole and Dolma (ginseng fruit), etc., on which are inserted barley ears, wheat ear flower schools, and a colored spleen called "Zi Zhuo" painted with sun, moon, and star patterns. Neighbors or relatives and friends come to visit the New Year, the host will hold the "Bamboo Soqima", the guest grabs a little rice with his hand, withdraws to the air three times in a row, grabs a little and puts it in his mouth, and then says "Tashi Delek" (auspicious and happy) to express his blessing.
Nomadic customs
Because the rice dumplings are eaten in a simple way and easy to carry, they are very suitable for nomadic life. When the herders go out, they always have to hang a rice bag around their waist, and when they are hungry, they grab the rice from the pocket and eat it. Sometimes, they take a wooden bowl from their arms, fill it with some rice dumplings, pour some butter tea, add some salt, stir a few times, grab it and eat it. Sometimes, while eating rice dumplings, drink butter tea.
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