Buyi people's food culture has a long history. For Buyi people, glutinous rice is one of their favorite traditional foods. During festivals, Buyi people choose the best glutinous rice and dye it with various plants. Friends and relatives give each other rice, which symbolizes good luck and shows their splendid life. So how did you make five-color rice?

1. The beautiful implication of five-color glutinous rice

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of Buyi, Zhuang and many other ethnic groups. Glutinous rice is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi generally make five-color glutinous rice. The Zhuang family loves five-color glutinous rice very much and regards it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. The five-color glutinous rice is colorful, bright and attractive; Natural pigments are beneficial and harmless to human body, each with its own fragrance and flavor. Five-color glutinous rice has good color, fragrance and taste, and also has the functions of nourishing, fitness, medical care and beauty.

2. Five-color rice is made by dyeing plants.

On March 3rd, Tomb-Sweeping Day was connected, and people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi had a six-day holiday, which was the exclusive welfare of the people of Guangxi. These days, the market was full of fresh plants that farmers picked from the mountains to make five-color glutinous rice. Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack in Zhuang area, which is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. Every household in Zhuang people likes to make five-color glutinous rice for entertaining guests, catching up with songs or offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods.

Postscript: Five-color glutinous rice can be said to be the most representative food of Buyi people. The main raw materials of five-color glutinous rice are glutinous rice and natural plant dyes collected from the mountains (it is worth mentioning that the Buyi people respect nature very much, and the dyes usually used to color food or cloth are taken from nature). These plant dyes used to make five-color glutinous rice are hard to find, because they are usually dispersed, and each dye can only grow in a specific place, so it takes a lot of time and energy to make five-color glutinous rice.