Speaking of Zhaoxing Dong Village’s delicacies, the two most impressive ones are barbecued glutinous rice and fried oil tea.

The Dong people have long had the custom of eating glutinous rice as their staple food. The reason is that glutinous rice is easy to preserve, because after the Dong people leave home to plow the fields in the morning, they will be busy working in the fields all day long. You can't go home until evening, so it's particularly important to have food that's easy to store and doesn't spoil easily. Another advantage of glutinous rice is that it is particularly resistant to hunger. As we all know, glutinous rice is the most resistant to hunger among all rice grains. A full meal of glutinous rice can last for most of a day, which is convenient for the Dong people who work outside. , resistant to hunger and easy to preserve, so the Dong people have always had the custom of eating glutinous rice.

In the past, the Dong people ate glutinous rice, and if the condition was good, they would also add barbecued meat. Barbecued meat is easy to preserve and not perishable, and tastes dry and delicious. Therefore, the current Dong village has developed a special snack of "barbecued glutinous rice" .

When we went to Zhaoxing Dong Village this time, we were the first to taste the barbecued glutinous rice sold here. I saw that the grill stall on the stall was slowly roasting fat and thin pork, and there were several condiments for tourists to choose from. The Dong lady would first scoop the glutinous rice into a bag, and then ask the guests about their taste. If you like spicy food, add roasted chili peppers. If you like spicy food, you will also add homemade sauerkraut. Finally, knead the glutinous rice with your hands, so that the ingredients can be better integrated into the glutinous rice. If you take it away, just put a few slices of barbecue in the bag. If you sit down to eat, the Dong eldest sister will pour the kneaded glutinous rice into a disposable lunch box, and then put a few slices of barbecue on top. In short, this The sour and spicy taste is very appetizing.

Speaking of fried oil tea, it is also a daily must-eat for the Dong people. We went to one of the restaurants in Dong Village to experience it.

The Dong grandmother first raised the fire, heated the pot, poured tea oil into it and cooked it, then put in the steamed and dried glutinous rice, and fried the glutinous rice with oil. , and grandma also told us that glutinous rice needs to be a little batter to be fragrant.

You also need to continue frying a kind of bitter tea leaves with camellia oil, and add water to boil them to make tea soup. Finally, add the prepared pig offal, peanuts, chopped green onion and other seasonings and mix it like this, and a bowl of Dong fried oil tea is ready. This kind of fried oil tea is different from Han fried oil tea. It tastes lighter and slightly bitter.

The tie-dye and hammer cloth of Zhaoxing Dong Village are also worth mentioning.

The tie-dying here is like this. You first fold the linen you have woven into different patterns, and then put them into the color juice produced by the plants. These plants are all kinds of strange, including isatis root. The juice from the roots is used. The longer the dyeing time is, the more dyeing will occur, and different folding methods will produce different patterns.

The Dong people, who do not have their own written language, through words and deeds, have preserved this ancient traditional indigo dyeing process through repeated repetitions and reincarnations of time, and have been passed down for thousands of years.

Having cloth is also a common method used by the Dong people. Use a wooden hammer to beat evenly and moderately, and beat all the cloth surface. The raised fluff of the cotton cloth will become smooth and smooth, and the bluish cloth will begin to shine. It is said that the more hammered the cloth is, the brighter it becomes and the more durable it is, but the hammer used to hammer the cloth is quite heavy.