Bitong drink is made of lotus leaves, and the roots of the lotus leaves are all connected. Punching the center of the leaves in the middle can be used as a straw cup. Pick fresh lotus leaves, still retain the taste of nature, roll them up and pour the drinks in. Then people suck the roots so that they can drink the drinks on them, which is very interesting.

The ancients used lotus leaves as wine glasses to drink, which was called blue tube drinking. When drinking, it is quite interesting to take lotus leaves as wine glasses in the lotus pond and pick them conveniently. Take the lotus leaf with stem and pierce the lotus core, so that the piercing hole is connected with the hollow lotus stem. Fill the lotus leaf with wine, then bend the hollow leaf stem into a trunk shape and suck the wine from the end of the stem. The ancients called this way of drinking with lotus leaf cups "Bi Tong Drink".

Brief introduction of Jinan Bitong drink

Lotus plays an important role in Jinan people's life. In the use of lotus, there are some special customs in Jinan. Among them, the most interesting one is the blue tube drink.

In Jinan, lotus leaves can be made into many unique foods besides wine. For example, the fresh and green lotus leaves are slightly scalded with hot water, covered with porridge when cooking, and sugar is added after the cooked porridge is cool, which is called "lotus leaf porridge" and is a famous snack in summer in Jinan.

According to the method of making "rice flour meat" or "steamed pork", first cut the pork, stir-fry the rice, mix with soy sauce, then choose the tender lotus leaf produced in Daming Lake, wash it, wrap a piece of pork with a proper amount of fried rice in a lotus leaf, spread it in a bowl, put it in a steamer, and steam it to get the "lotus meat".

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Bitong Drink for the above contents.