According to the query baked dexiang.com, wu rice is a kind of purple and black glutinous rice, is the collection of wild plants wu rice tree leaves to cook soup, with the boiled soup will be half a day of glutinous rice, and then fished out into the wooden retort steamed and become. Especially in Jiangsu and Anhui area every lunar April 8, many people with the Wu rice tree leaves steamed rice, has become a custom. Although the rice can be steamed and eat also can be boiled to eat, but generally still steamed rice is more common. Because glutinous rice steamed more flavorful, more delicious, boiled and eat easy to cook the glutinous rice rotten.