Wash the soaked rice and put it in a steamer. Poke it twice with chopsticks to let it breathe. Steam the pot in cold water for one hour. The steamer is too small to forget the milky white one, and the six colors are also good. Its steamed tricolor is also very good.
Fengshan five-color glutinous rice is a local specialty food in Fengshan County, Guangxi, also known as five-color rice, black rice or flower rice. Known for its five colors of black, red, yellow, purple and white, it is a traditional food used by Zhuang families to entertain guests. For this reason, Du Fu once wrote a wonderful sentence "No polished rice makes my color tone good".
Every traditional folk festival, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, March 3rd and April 8th of the lunar calendar, Ox King Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc. Every household in Zhuang nationality likes to cook five-color glutinous rice, and every household should cook five-color glutinous rice to catch up with the song or worship the gods.
Select high-quality fermented rice, collect rattan, safflower, red maple leaf and red and blue grass, soak and drain them, mix them with fermented rice respectively, and steam them together, which is not only bright in color, but also pure in fragrance, representing a happy life. On the eighth day of April, the early rice after transplanting has turned green. Everyone rubbed five-color glutinous rice into small balls, stuck them on thin bamboo, and inserted them in ancestral shrines. They also brought back a thriving seedling from the ground, wrapped it in pumpkin leaves, put it in a bowl, and worshipped their ancestors together to pray for a bumper harvest.
This kind of flavor food is mixed with the theme activities of offering sacrifices to entertain the gods, which is full of the fun of the Chinese nation and region. Relatives, friends and lovers usually taste five-color glutinous rice together, which is of course particularly delicious. This custom has been passed down for a long time. In the Qing Dynasty, Wuyuan County Records recorded: "On March 3rd, red maple leaves were dipped in juice and dyed into gray-black rice, that is, polished rice."