In Tibetan areas, whether you go to a temple or a family, you will find a mulberry stove, and whether it is located in the center of the yard, on the roof or on the wall, it is the cleanest place after careful selection.

There are many videos of Tibetan mulberry stew on the internet, but there are not many videos introducing the process of mulberry stew. In the Lalong Temple in Luoza County, I was lucky enough to see the whole process of simmering mulberry for the first time:

1. The stove is paved with cypress branches or herbs or licorice, a unique local leaf (some tea leaves will be put if possible);

2. Then sprinkle one or more large grains (highland barley, coix seed, gordon euryales, sago, etc.). What I saw was sago.

3. Then sprinkle with flour and rice (the common one is Ciba powder-the powder fried before grinding highland barley);

4. Pour in sugar (this time I saw rock sugar) and broken fruit;

5. Then light the mulberry stove. After the fire started, cypress branches were dipped in clear water and sprinkled on the lit fireworks for three times, and mulberry stews read the "six-character mantra". The fire ceremony of simmering mulberry is over.

6. The first thing the prayer does after entering the door is to simmer the mulberry (take out the rice cake powder or sugar from the bag he carries with him, sprinkle it into the mulberry stove, and recite the scriptures at the same time. Or add branches and grass).