1. Zhuang people in most areas are used to eating three meals by solar eclipse, and Zhuang people in a few areas also eat four meals, that is, adding a small meal between lunch and dinner. Breakfast and Chinese food are relatively simple, usually porridge, dinner is dinner, dry rice is eaten more, and vegetables are more abundant. Rice and corn are abundant grains in Zhuang areas, which naturally become their staple food.
There are many ways to make staple food. For example, there are varieties of rice such as indica rice, japonica rice and glutinous rice. Generally used for cooking, porridge, often steamed into rice noodles, delicious. Japonica rice and glutinous rice can also be soaked into sweet wine, that is, mash, which is rich in nutrition. If you eat it often in winter, you can keep out the cold and nourish it. Glutinous rice is often used as Ciba, Zongzi, five-color glutinous rice, etc. It is an essential food for Zhuang festivals.
3. Traditional meat of Zhuang nationality includes pork, chicken, duck, goose, mutton, beef, horses, mountain birds and animals. Among these meats, boiled chicken, roasted pig and raw fish are more distinctive. Zhuang people, every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, every household eats fish raw.
4. Zhuang cuisine is fresh all year round, and there are many kinds, including vegetables, radishes, beans, melons, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and so on. Green vegetables are divided into Chinese cabbage, mustard, cabbage, water spinach, head vegetables, kale and so on. There are also many varieties of beans and melons. Zhuang people like to eat stir-fried dishes, which can be eaten with a little cooking. Fresh taste and rich nutrition. They seldom eat stew, but they have a special interest in mountain products. Bamboo shoots, tremella, auricularia and fungi are the most precious.
5. In the past, the drinks of Zhuang people were mainly rice wine, sweet potato wine and cassava wine, which were brewed by themselves, and the degree was not high. Among them, rice wine is the main drink for festivals and entertainments. Sweet wine makes people strong, which has a history of thousands of years. Strong people are used to drinking sweet wine to welcome guests when they arrive. Other liquors of Zhuang nationality, such as Gecko Liquor and Sanshe Liquor, are medicinal liquor. Gecko wine is made by soaking Gecko and Angelica sinensis in good wine, which has the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and moistening lung.