Jiang Yongyao's bamboo leaf cane——
"A lump of harmony" passed the Mid-Autumn Festival
Huasheng Online, September 22 (Hunan Daily, Huasheng Online Reporter, Tang Shanli, Correspondent Chen Jianlin) "Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, our Yao family likes to make bamboo leaves, and the round rice dumplings symbolize family reunion, peace and happiness." On September 21, the family of Wu Qiuying, a villager in Jianxin Village, Songbai Yao Nationality Township, Jiangyong County, happily made bamboo leaf dumplings at home. Wu Qiuying told reporters that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when neighbors visit each other, they use bamboo leaves to entertain guests and give gifts.
The production of bamboo leaves is a traditional custom of Jiang Yongyao's family that has been inherited for thousands of years, every Mid-Autumn Festival, every household must make bamboo leaf dumplings, the whole family sits together, there are talks and laughter, and it is happy and harmonious.
Pour the glutinous rice flour into a large basin, add wormwood water and stir evenly, knead into a dough, the dough is the size of an egg, filled with filling, then kneaded into a ball and wrapped in the middle of two bamboo leaves, pressed into a flat circle and steamed. Yaozhai has a long history of making bamboo leaf rice dumplings, and the people have always followed the method of making bamboo leaves and rice dumplings from their ancestors. The filling of bamboo leaves is mainly homegrown sesame seeds, peanuts, brown sugar, etc. Bamboo leaves are wrapped in rice dumplings, and after making raw embryos, they can be steamed with firewood for about 15 minutes and eaten. The freshly cooked rice is steaming hot and delicious, and you can smell a fresh and rich smell of mugwort leaves, as well as the fragrance of bamboo leaves wrapped outside.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, relatives and friends, neighbors and neighbors must take bamboo leaves to go from village to village, pull family customs, And talk about friendship, everyone calls bamboo leaves and rice dumplings "harmony" and "reunion rice dumplings", in the Yaojia cottage village, every household "a group of harmony" to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival.