Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of Buyi, Zhuang and many other ethnic groups.

1. During the traditional folk festivals of the Zhuang people such as Qingming Festival, March 3rd and April 8th of the lunar calendar (Ox King Festival), Dragon Boat Festival and other traditional festivals, every household of the Zhuang people likes to make five-color glutinous rice. Every household must make five-color glutinous rice as a snack.

It is eaten at the festival, or used to worship ancestors and gods.

This kind of flavor food is integrated with activities of worshiping ancestors and entertaining gods, and is full of ethnic and local flavor.

Family members, relatives, friends, and lovers often try the five-color glutinous rice, which is naturally particularly delicious.

This custom has been around for a long time and has been recorded in the Qing Dynasty.

2. The Miao five-color glutinous rice is the mascot of the Miao people. It means that life is like a hundred flowers and symbolizes that people of all ethnic groups are united like glutinous rice balls.

The legend about the five-color glutinous rice: 1. Sacrifice to Tegui. Legend has it that there was a strong man named Wei Tegui who was extremely talented and served as a minister under the Tu Emperor.

One year there was a severe drought. In order to relieve the suffering of the people, he invited the local emperor to visit Zhuang Township in person, and used a trick to make the emperor exempt from the imperial grain.

The Tu emperor later discovered that he had been deceived and regarded Te Gui as a thorn in his side and ordered him to be captured and brought to justice.

When the people of Zhuang Township heard about it, they sent Tegui up the mountain to hide overnight.

The imperial soldiers couldn't catch him, so they set fire to the mountain. That day happened to be the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

After the imperial soldiers left, the villagers found Tegui's body in the hole of a big maple tree and buried him with tears next to the maple tree.

From then on, every year on March 3rd, Zhuang people would use the juice of maple leaves and other plants to dye the glutinous rice into red, yellow, purple, black and other colors. After steaming it, they would take it to the mountain to offer sacrifices to Tegui.

2. The Three Holy Mothers and Agarwood Legend has it that the fairy Third Holy Mother violated the law of heaven because she wanted to marry a mortal, so she was imprisoned in hell by the Jade Emperor and refused to give her anything to eat.

Chen Xiang, the son of the Third Holy Mother, sent rice to hell for his mother in order to prevent her from starving. Unexpectedly, every time she passed the prison gate, the gatekeeper would eat all the food.

Chen Xiang came up with a way: soak the glutinous rice black with maple leaf juice and cook it into green rice. The gatekeeper had never eaten black rice before and thought it was poisonous so he dared not eat it again.

From then on, Chen Xiang's mother relied on this green rice to maintain her life.

Agarwood's filial piety moved heaven, and the Jade Emperor released the Three Holy Mothers.