Typical foods are pickled ginger, pickles and she dishes, which are often pickled with pepper, ginger and radish. , called rotten pepper, rotten ginger, etc. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is called horn by the people. Black rice, the seasonal food on March 3, is made by mashing the tender leaves of black rice tree (called black branch in She language), soaking glutinous rice with juice, and cooking to become black and shiny black rice. It is said that eating black rice is not afraid of ants biting.