Miao nationality is a minority with a long history in China and a relatively large minority in China today. In fact, as we all know, every nation has its own food culture. So, do you know the food culture of Miao nationality?

Next, let's find the answer together from the perspective of food culture!

In the distribution areas of Miao nationality, most of them have three meals a day, and rice is the staple food. First dry the rice (or dry it on the kang), pour it into a wok to remove the rice bran, and then eat it now, weighing 3-5 kg each time. Now many places have used electricity and water to grind rice. When the Miao people cook, they often add 6-7 times of boiled rice. After cooking until it is half cooked, they take out the rice soup and steam it in a wooden steamer. There are also boiled and steamed corn, wheat and millet mixed together. Bags and buckwheat are pushed into flour or granules with a stone mill for eating. Mix flour with water, pour it into water and steam it as a staple food. Miao people at the junction of Guangxi and Yunnan and Guizhou call it "flour rice". Miao people in Sichuan Province eat noodles and other staple foods made of wheat, buckwheat or corn flour. Miao people in some areas of Guizhou have steamed oats, roasted with slow fire in the original pot, then ground into powder and fried as their daily staple food.

Miao people attach importance to glutinous rice and regard it as a symbol of good harvest and good luck. When eating glutinous rice, sometimes it is steamed first, poured into a wooden trough while it is hot, mashed with a hammer, then torn into small balls by hand, flattened with wooden boards, soaked in mountain spring water after being completely cooled, and replaced at any time. It can be stored for 4-5 months and can be burned, roasted or fried when eaten. Fried Baba is the most common fried food. Deep-fried Baba is made by soaking glutinous rice and a small amount of soybeans, beating them into slurry, then scooping the beaten thick slurry into a mold made of iron sheet and frying them in boiling oil to get golden yellow. If you add some fresh meat and sauerkraut as stuffing, the taste will be more delicious.

There are many kinds of Miao vegetables. Common vegetables are beans, melons, greens and radishes. Most meat comes from livestock and poultry. Miao people in Sichuan and Yunnan like to eat dog meat, and there is a saying that "Miao dog is the wine of Yi people". Dog meat is hot, which has the functions of warming stomach, strengthening stomach and nourishing food. In addition to animal oil, Miao people's edible oils are mostly tea oil and vegetable oil.

Miao cuisine is deeply loved by the general public, and now it has developed into a kind of cuisine, because Miao people like sauerkraut. In addition to chicken, duck and fish, there are all kinds of sauerkraut at home. There are many kinds of sauerkraut, mainly chicken, sour soup, sour soup fish, sour soup noodles and so on.

Miao nationality has a long history of brewing, and has a set of techniques from koji-making, fermentation, distillation, wine blending and cellar storage. Sucking wine is unique. When drinking, the bamboo tube is inserted into the urn, and the drinker forms a circle along the urn. The elders drink first, and then go from left to right. After the wine juice is sucked, it can be washed into drinking water until it is tasteless. Once the altar is opened, the remaining wine, whether strong or weak, will not be used again. Every family still makes glutinous rice liqueur on holidays. Camellia oleifera is the most common daily drink. When making, stir-fry the oil, salt, ginger and tea together, add water to boil after the oil smokes, then filter the residue, then pour the tea into a bowl filled with corn, peanuts, rice fragrance or glutinous rice, and add some chopped green onion, garlic leaves, pepper and mountain pepper appropriately, and you can drink it. Xiangxi Miao people also specially made a kind of scented tea (also called ginkgo tea). Besides tea, sour soup is also a common drink.

The Miao people's diet custom culture has become a feature, which, together with other nationalities' diet custom culture, constitutes a huge diet custom system in China. The diet custom of Miao nationality is the concrete embodiment of Miao culture and the unique charm of Chinese food civilization.