Purple rice is also called "purple glutinous rice" and "bonesetting glutinous rice". Only produced in Simao and Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Because the granules are long, the color is purple, and the color of rice porridge is more vivid, so it is named. People like to cook eight-treasure rice during the Spring Festival. Its taste is slightly sweet, sticky but not greasy, nourishing blood and qi, warming spleen and stomach, and it is suitable for stomach cold pain, thirst, frequent urination at night, etc. It can be used with herbs to treat traumatic injuries. Mojiang purple rice is produced on the Tropic of Cancer, and it is a specialty of southwest Yunnan, so it is named because the rice is purple-black. It belongs to glutinous rice, commonly known as "purple pearl".

It is called "Yutian rouge rice" in A Dream of Red Mansions. Mojiang purple rice is famous for its large and full particles, strong viscosity, durable broken rice after steaming and mellow texture, and is exported to Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong Kong. Compendium of Materia Medica records that purple rice has the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and warming liver, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation. Purple rice is rich in protein, fat, lysine, riboflavin, thiamine, folic acid and other vitamins, as well as trace elements such as iron, zinc, calcium and phosphorus. It is a good product for cooking, processing non-staple food and dietotherapy. The fragrant and delicious purple rice Baba, purple rice sweet white wine, red jujube purple rice porridge, purple rice Sanqi stewed chicken, purple rice eight-treasure rice, purple rice steamed chicken and purple rice gourd duck are deeply loved by the masses and have nourishing effects. Mojiang's "purple rice sealed wine" made of purple rice won the gold medal in Paris International Expo, and its reputation is far-reaching and very popular. Purple rice is a kind of high-quality rice, which is a specialty in southern and southwestern Yunnan. It is nutritious and a nourishing treasure.