Purple vine, yellow flowers, maple leaves, red and blue are soaked in the liquid, mixed with glutinous rice respectively, and then steamed together to make five-color glutinous rice.

Five-color glutinous rice is named after glutinous rice generally comes in five colors: black, red, yellow, purple and white. It is a traditional food used by Buyi and Zhuang people to entertain guests.

Every household of the Zhuang people likes to make five-color glutinous rice to eat during the Qingming Festival, the 3rd day of the third lunar month, the 8th day of the fourth lunar month, the Ox King Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and other traditional folk festivals.

, 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.

Extended information: Legend of five-color glutinous rice: Legend has it that there was a strong man named Wei Dagui 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 Da 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 Gui to 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 Dagui's body in the hole of a big maple tree and buried him with tears next to the maple tree.

And it happened that the emperor was bitten to death by a snake of five colors.

Therefore, every year on March 3rd, Zhuang people would use the juice of maple leaves and other plants to dye glutinous rice into red, yellow, purple, black and other colors, steam it and bring it to the mountain for sacrifice.