There are more than a dozen kinds of light Baba in Gongcheng cuisine, including water Baba, Baba, taro Baba, radish Baba, sugar Baba, boat Baba, pot-bellied Baba and pomelo leaf Baba.
Gongcheng people have a special liking for Baba. As the saying goes, "Don't forget Baba when you eat camellia oil." It is said that although many people do manual labor, they usually only drink oil tea for breakfast and don't eat, relying on a few BaBa to resist hunger. Making Baba and eating Baba is a symbol of festivals. Every household must make Baba and eat Baba during festivals, and the Baba of each solar term is different.
Tomb-Sweeping Day makes mugwort: In the fields of Gongcheng, mugwort leaves used to make mugwort can be seen everywhere. This kind of wormwood leaf is similar to wormwood used to ward off evil spirits during the Dragon Boat Festival, but there is no hard and tall stem. The wormwood made has no fiber at all, and the whole green is crystal clear, giving off the unique fragrance of wormwood leaf when eaten in the mouth. People in Gongcheng make Ai Ba, one is to worship ancestors, the other is to use Ai Ba, a medicinal potherb, to cool and detoxify, get rid of diseases and strengthen the body, and the third is to make Ai Ba to bring the whole family together and enhance the feelings among family members.
Making brown cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival: Gongcheng people call brown seeds yellow-haired brown, because the material binding brown seeds in Gongcheng is a kind of grass called yellow-haired leaves, which is a local specialty of Gongcheng. Gongcheng yellow hair brown is very big, which is very different from the brown ones made in Nanning, Liuzhou and other places. Generally, it has a diameter of 1 cm and a length of 3 to 4 cm. Gongcheng Huangmao Brown is made of pure glutinous rice. Generally, after steaming, it is cut into slices about 1 cm thick and dipped in ginger syrup to eat, which has a special flavor. Another purpose of Gongcheng yellow hair brown is to give young men the future Yuezhang family "Festival" (gift).
Making dog tongue-shaped combs in July and a half: Gongcheng people solemnly commemorate their ancestors on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month or from the 7th to 14th day of the seventh lunar month. At this time of the year, every family will "invite" their ancestors' souls home to offer sacrifices, and one of the main foods offered is dog tongue-shaped combs. Dog's tongue Baba is named because it looks like a dog's tongue. Generally, glutinous rice is ground into powder, yellow sugar is added, mixed with water, and made into a dog's tongue-like Ciba ball. Then it is wrapped with black sesame powder, wrapped with Ciba leaves one by one, and steamed in a large pot. A great feature of dog's tongue is that it is not easy to turn sour in July when the temperature is very high.
Mid-Autumn Festival Pot-bellied Pot: Pot-bellied Pot-bellied Pot-bellied Pot can be called "Super Tangyuan" because it is very similar to eating and tangyuan. The difference is that the pot-bellied rice balls are several times or even ten times the size of ordinary glutinous rice balls, and the stuffing is much richer. Generally, there are fragrant mushrooms, fungus, dried yellow bamboo shoots, betel nut taro and other Gongcheng mountain products and local products. The Mid-Autumn Festival in our country pays attention to the reunion of the full moon, and the family gets together to eat two or three pot-bellied cakes. That scene will never be inferior to the Lantern Festival when the family eats dumplings together.
In addition, people in Gongcheng will also make jiaoniu rice dumplings, cake cakes, cooked rice cakes, soaked rice cakes, radish cakes, celery cakes and taro cakes on the Spring Equinox, June 6th, Winter Solstice, New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. With the continuous development of tourism in Gongcheng, Baba, a special snack of Gongcheng and Gongcheng Camellia oleifera, has been gradually known by the world and has become a must-have flavor food for tourists in Gongcheng.