What to eat at the Lotus Festival?
Lotus seeds can be tasted at the Lotus Festival. Lotus leaf has a special fragrance, so it is widely used to make food. Lotus, lotus seeds and lotus roots have been raw materials for making food since ancient times. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people had the custom of eating "green boiled rice" on the Lotus Festival.
Liu Zongyuan's poem "Liuzhou Cave Man" said: "The county is connected to Tianjin in the south, and the foreign clothes are not amiable. Green noodles are wrapped in salt, and green boiled rice accounts for the market. " The green fried rice in the poem is the famous snack "fried rice" in Guangzhou and Fuzhou today.
People in the Song Dynasty liked to mash lotus petals, mix them with rice flour and sugar, and steam them into lotus seed cakes to eat. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was popular to brew lotus wine with lotus petals. Empress Dowager Cixi also gave the wine brewed by Bai Lianhua to trusted ministers, calling it "Jade liquid and nectar".
Yujing rice in Song Dynasty and lotus seed porridge in Yuan Dynasty are both classic delicacies made of lotus seeds. Until now, people still like to eat delicious supplements made of lotus seeds. Lotus root is the main part of people's food in lotus root, and the delicious food made of lotus root is dazzling in variety, which is deeply loved by people all over the world.