1, Zhuang
Every family of Zhuang people likes to cook five-color glutinous rice on traditional folk festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, the third day of the third lunar month, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (Ox King's Day) and the Dragon Boat Festival. Every family should cook five-color glutinous rice for eating in order to catch up with the song fair or to worship their ancestors and gods. This kind of flavor food blends with the activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors and entertaining gods, and is full of national and local interests. Family members, friends and lovers often taste five-color glutinous rice, which is naturally particularly delicious. This custom has a long history and has been recorded in the Qing Dynasty.
2. Miao nationality
Five-color glutinous rice is the mascot of Miao people, which means that life is like a hundred flowers, and symbolizes that people of all ethnic groups are United as glutinous rice balls.
Legends about five-color glutinous rice;
1, offering sacrifices to Tegui
Legend has it that there was a strong man with superior intelligence, Wei Tegui, who was a minister under the local emperor. One year of drought, in order to relieve the sufferings of the people, he invited the local emperor to visit Zhuangxiang personally, and used a trick to save the emperor from the imperial grain. The local tyrant later found out that he had been taken in, regarded Tegui as a thorn in his side and ordered him to be arrested and brought to justice. When the people of Zhuangxiang heard about it, they sent Tegui to the mountain to hide overnight. When the imperial soldiers could not catch them, they let Yamakaji go. It was the third day of the third lunar month.
After the imperial soldiers left, the villagers found Tegui's body in a big maple tree hole and buried him beside the maple tree with tears in their eyes. After that, on March 3rd every year, Zhuang people dyed glutinous rice in red, yellow, purple, black and other colors with plant juice such as maple leaves, steamed it and took it to the mountain to offer sacrifices to Tegui.
2. Three Notre Dames and Aquilaria Resinatum
Legend has it that the Fairy Third Virgin broke the dogma by marrying the world for thinking of worldly affairs, so she was put into hell by the Jade Emperor and was not given anything to eat. In order not to let his mother be hungry, Shen Xiang, the son of the Three Notre Dames, sent her food to hell, but every time she passed by the prison gate, she was eaten up by the janitor.
Aquilaria sinensis thought of a way: soak glutinous rice in maple leaf juice and cook it into rice. The doorkeeper never ate black rice, thinking it was poisonous, he dared not eat it again. Since then, agarwood's mother has relied on this refined rice to maintain her life. The filial piety of agarwood touched heaven, and the Jade Emperor released the Three Virgin.