The glutinous rice cake, also known as the No.1 scholar's cake, is a traditional name. The glutinous rice paste is made of glutinous rice as the main material, supplemented by other seasonings. Ciba is made by putting cooked glutinous rice into a stone trough and mashing it with a stone hammer. It is a popular food in some areas of southern China. Due to local differences, some people also use bamboo instead.

Specific practices:

Soak glutinous rice for more than one day, drain, and steam in a wooden steamer. Then pour in a mortar and mash it into jelly, sprinkle some glutinous rice flour on a clean vessel, rub the mashed glutinous rice on it, knead it into small balls or cakes, or print various patterns with a special mold and put it in a ventilated and dry place to dry in the shade. It can be soaked in water after drying in the shade and can be stored for a long time. There are many ways to eat, such as frying, boiling, baking, boiling with sweet wine and adding sugar, and heating in microwave oven.

trait

Ciba is a snack of southern minorities, which is very popular in southern China. Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities all have them. Huangchuan in Henan, Jiujiang in Jiangxi and Wuyishan in Fujian are the most popular, and Wuzhou in Guangxi is the most special. It is also available in southern Anhui, mainly during the Double Ninth Festival as a holiday food for guests to taste.

At present, street vendors often peddle with their feet on tricycles, and rice paste is packed in special iron drums with good thermal insulation performance. When the handle is shaken, the rice paste is drilled out of the round hole. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people will make brown sugar mixed with rice cakes to entertain their guests as a sign of good luck.