Ciba powder is different in different regions, including soybean powder, white sugar, or seasoning powder made of fried rice, peanuts, sesame seeds and yellow sugar.

The custom of making Ciba in Chongqing: Usually in the Mid-Autumn Festival, steamed glutinous rice is introduced into a stone spoon, mashed with reeds, and then sprinkled with bean powder and sugar.

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What is a Ciba?

Ciba is a kind of food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice. Ciba is made by putting cooked glutinous rice into a stone trough and mashing it with a stone hammer or reed. Generally, this kind of food can be called Ciba. Southern ethnic snacks are popular foods in some areas of southern China. (Due to local differences, some of them are also replaced by bamboo. )

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Making method of Ciba

Steaming glutinous rice in a wooden rice cooker, pouring it into a stone mortar and beating it until it is rotten. After taking it out, it is kneaded into a rice cake ball of moderate size and eaten with sugar. Or put it in a bamboo basket and roll a layer of Ciba powder (stir-fried soybeans are ground into powder and mixed with brown sugar). Whenever there is a happy event, the local people will make brown sugar mixed with rice cakes to entertain their guests as a sign of good luck.

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The custom of eating Ciba

In Hakka areas such as Meizhou in Guangdong, Longyan in Fujian and Sanming in Fujian, there is a custom of making Ciba during traditional festivals or family celebrations. The making method of Ciba is: take the first-class glutinous rice, preferably red glutinous rice with thin and soft shell, and process it into white glutinous rice. Soak glutinous rice in clear water, steam it in a wooden steamer, put it in a stone mortar, and make it with a pestle and a hammer. Therefore, Hakkas are called "Ciba". Use a smooth wooden pestle to make a glutinous rice hammer, so that the glutinous rice grains will not stick. After vigorous beating, it was made into soup and then made into the size of an egg. Dip it in the seasoning powder made of fried rice, peanuts, sesame seeds and yellow sugar, and it tastes flexible, fresh, smooth, sweet and delicious.