It is impossible to find out how many years since people in Shengzhou tasted the eight-treasure rice on New Year's Eve. According to legend, the folk taste of Babao rice on New Year's Eve is a good luck, so why choose it on New Year's Eve? Perhaps the ancient working people were busy all the year round and didn't have a chance to taste it at ordinary times, so they took advantage of the New Year's Eve to taste this bowl of royal eight treasures soup. After the eight-treasure rice spread among the people in Shengzhou, it was made into a nutritious and healthy preparation system of glutinous rice, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat, kumquat cakes, candied dates, sugar, lard and red and green silk. The making method of eight-treasure rice: firstly, put glutinous rice into a big bowl, cover it with seasonings, steam it, and add sugar sweat, which looks like porridge rather than porridge, and tastes sweet and refreshing.
Shengzhou, an outstanding city, has a very prosperous food culture. People carry forward the eight-treasure rice enjoyed by the court dignitaries in ancient times and quietly introduce it to ordinary families, adding fun to life. Not only that, but now the major hotels and restaurants in Shengzhou have also grandly launched a carefully prepared eight-treasure rice, which is covered with egg white. Innovation was made in the production, and the eight-treasure rice prepared with apple, banana, orange, green plum, tremella and rice kernels was introduced. The fruit flavor was very rich, which catered to the tastes of the people and added color to the festival. The eight-treasure rice made in rural families is also very particular. They use their own sweet bean paste made of chestnut meat, peanut meat, dried sweet potato, arhat bean meat, cowpea and white sugar, which is mixed into the eight-treasure rice and has a unique peasant flavor.
Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty, a general fled after a fierce battle. He took off his armor and put on a cloth, afraid to take the main road, and went to places where no one was there.
A few days later, he was cold and hungry and fainted in a ruined temple. It was winter, the wind was crazy and the snow was heavy, and when he was dying, he suddenly felt a great pain in his ears. It turned out that a mouse regarded him as a dead man and was feasting. Angry and hating, he didn't know where he came from. He chased rats and dug their nests, and even got several handfuls of winter rations for rats in the rat hole, including eight kinds of rice, millet, red dates and lotus seeds. He used a censer as wok, boiled it into a pot of rice, and finally survived. Later, in order to commemorate this event, these eight kinds of cooking were used every year and passed on to later generations and the people, commonly known as eight-treasure rice.