Reason: Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by collecting the leaves of wild plant Vaccinium bracteatum, boiling the glutinous rice with the boiled soup for a long time, then taking it out and steaming it in a wooden steamer. Black rice is oily and fragrant, and it is cooked by soaking glutinous rice in black leaves for a few hours. Eating black rice can dispel wind and detoxify, and prevent mosquitoes and insects from biting, and people believe that eating black rice in long summer will protect people's safety and happiness.
Historical origin:
Black rice was originally a folk food, which existed in the Tang Dynasty. In rural areas of Yixing, Liyang, Jintan and southern Anhui, it has become a custom that many people cook black rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month.
In China, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui and other places, people still keep the ancient custom of eating black rice in April of the lunar calendar. Some places eat it on the Qingming Cold Food Festival, while more people eat it on the eighth day of April. Black rice is a unique flavor snack of Miao and Buyi nationalities in Huaxi.
On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Buyi people call it "Niuwang Festival", also known as "Opening Seedling Gate". After the first day of April, it began to farm and plant seedlings. I ate black rice on the day when I opened the seedling door. During this period of ploughing and planting seedlings, I was physically strong and healthy, so every household should eat delicious black rice.
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Legend: Sun Bin
Black rice is usually eaten around the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, that is, long summer. Choose this particular solar term, and there is also a new folklore. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin, the descendant of the soldier Sun Wu, went into the mountains with Pang Juan, the general of Wei State, to learn the art of war from Guiguzi. Guiguzi taught the essence of the art of war to the modest and studious Sun Bin.
Pang Juan, jealous of talented people, designed to cheat Sun Bin, cut off his patella, locked Sun Bin in the stable and forced him to hand over the art of war by starvation. The kind jailer was very sympathetic to Sun Bin's misfortune.
He fooled Pang Juan's men, used local materials and mashed glutinous rice with Vaccinium bracteatum leaves, cooked it and kneaded it into small dumplings, which he secretly gave to Sun Bin for eating. Because its shape and color are similar to horse manure, Pang Juan never found the secret. Later, Sun Bin got revenge after being rescued.
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