Five-color glutinous rice is commonly known as five-color rice, also known as black rice, green rice or flowered rice. It is named after its five colors of black, red, yellow, purple and white. It is used by Buyi and Zhuang families. Traditional food to entertain guests.

On traditional folk festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, March 3rd, April 8th, Ox King Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and other traditional festivals, Zhuang people like to make five-color glutinous rice, and every household must make five-color glutinous rice. They can eat while singing, or worship ancestors.

This kind of flavored food is integrated with activities such as worshiping ancestors and entertaining gods, and is full of ethnic and local interests. Family, friends and loved ones often enjoy five-color glutinous rice, which is naturally delicious. This custom has a long history. According to the "Wuyuan Book" of the Qing Dynasty, "On March 3rd, rice was dyed with maple leaf juice, that is, green rice." They selected high-quality glutinous rice, collected wisteria, yellow flowers, maple leaves, red and blue (red silk threads), soaked them in the liquid respectively, and The glutinous rice is mixed well and then steamed together. It is not only colorful, fragrant and pure, but also symbolizes a good life. Du Fu once wrote a good saying for it: "Do you have green rice to make my color better?" On the eighth day of April, the early rice has been planted green.

Knead the five-color glutinous rice into small balls, stick them on bamboo branches, and insert them in the ancestral hall. Take out the vigorously growing seedlings from the ground, wrap them in pumpkin leaves, put them in a bowl, and worship them together. Ancestors, pray for the protection of your ancestors. The five-color glutinous rice is the mascot of the Miao people, which symbolizes life like flowers and the unity of people of all ethnic groups. The natural pigments of the three leaf juices are used to fight against the sky and the earth, the green against the black, and the natural pigments of the yellow flower corolla are used for fighting against the sky and the earth. yellow.

Once, when Tren went to chop wood on the other side of the mountain, the monkey sneaked up to his mother and snatched away a large bag of steaming glutinous rice. The mother could not move, she could only look at the monkey. Grab rice.