On the third day of the third lunar month, the She people celebrate Ebony Day. Every household cooks black rice and the whole family has a dinner as a gift for relatives and friends. At the same time, they also gathered together to sing and dance to commemorate this festival. She people in Xiaocang Autonomous Township of Lianjiang County also celebrate Ubuntu Festival, and the mountain village is very lively on this day. Black rice is a wild plant called black barnyard grass, which is used by She people on the mountain. It is made by decocting leaves in soup, then soaking glutinous rice in the soup for several hours, picking it up and steaming it in a wooden steamer. This kind of black rice is blue-green, shiny black, soft to eat and delicious. Because of the anti-corrosion and spleen-opening effects of black rice, black rice is packed in ramie bags and hung in a ventilated and cool place for several days. If fried with lard, it will taste better. Therefore, there is a saying that "a family steamed ten incense".

Influenced by the She nationality, Quzhou and Lishui in the mountainous area of southwest Zhejiang also have the custom of eating black rice, usually on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year! The origin of black rice

When it comes to festivals, people will think of folk stories about Mulian saving his mother. Mu Lian's mother was driven into eighteen layers of hell by Yan for some reason. Out of filial piety to my mother, I begged the wishful staff given by the king of Tibet to open the door of hell and send food to my mother. Every time Manglietia gave her mother white rice, she was taken away by the evil spirits guarding hell, and her mother often went hungry. In order not to let her mother go hungry, Mulian climbed mountains and mountains, tasted hundreds of herbs and found a leaf with dark juice and refreshing appetite. Because the glutinous rice it cooks is black and very delicious. Manglietia japonica cooked black rice and sent it to prison. Seeing that the rice was black, the evil spirits dared not eat it, so they had to give it to Mulian's mother. From then on, Mulian's mother was no longer hungry. In order to get her mother out of hell, Mu Lian devoted herself to Buddhism and practiced hard, and finally moved the Buddha and revived her mother. Mulian is finally reunited with her mother. For thousands of years, people have been moved by Manglietia's filial piety and deeds of saving her mother. It is also out of a good wish that the deceased relatives will not starve. They cooked black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (also the Buddha's birthday), which is the first time that Mulian sent food to his mother. Some villages in dangtu county still follow this custom.

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The production method of Dong Heimi is very particular. On the sixth and seventh day of the sixth lunar month, the young leaves of Toareyang and Maple collected by local people were washed with water, then mashed and soaked in a vat of well water with a mortar. The bucket of water turned black after a night's work. Then, after filtering out impurities with gauze, pour the glutinous rice into the ink for soaking. After the glutinous rice swells, turns black and shines, the soaked and dyed glutinous rice is drained with a spatula and steamed, and the fragrant black rice is made. Dong Jia's glutinous rice and black rice are authentic "green food" in modern terms.

Black rice festival comes from a traditional story. Legend has it that Yang, a famous soldier in the Northern Song Dynasty, was killed by traitors and put into prison. Every day, the food his sister sent to the prison was taken away by the jailer. She thought of a way, went up the mountain to find Chinese herbal medicine, leaves of poplar, pounded out black juice, soaked glutinous rice, steamed it and sent it to prison. When the jailer saw this basket of black rice, he felt dirty and would never try to eat it again. Brother and sister agreed to rob the prison on the eighth day of April. Because he eats glutinous rice every day, Yang is full of energy. He broke free from the chains and opened the prison door. All the other detainees also escaped. My sister led the people in the stockade to meet and defeat the enemy. Since then, Yang went to the battlefield and was acquitted. To commemorate this victory, the Yang family cooked black rice, killed chickens and ducks, took out pickled fish and meat, and drank and sang to celebrate.

In some places, "April 8" is called Yangjia Festival, which is circulated among the people. It is said that eating Yang's black rice will increase their strength, so many people go to Yang's house on this day to beg for some black rice for their children and pray that the children will be stronger.

Black glutinous rice is bright and shiny, and its fragrance contains a hint of herbal flavor. The taste is unique and attractive. Erythrina leaves are still blindly used as medicinal materials, and also have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence, and invigorating spleen and kidney. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =