The ingredients for making five-color glutinous rice are: yellow: gardenia, dense flower, and turmeric.

Blue: butterfly pea flower.

Orange: hematoxylin.

Purple: Butterfly pea flower plus acid (vinegar), purple indigo grass.

Black: maple leaf.

Five-color glutinous rice generally refers to the five colors of black, red, yellow, white, and purple. It is a traditional delicacy of many ethnic groups such as the Zhuang and Buyi people.

Five-color glutinous rice is also called black rice.

Every year around the Qingming Festival or the third day of March in the lunar calendar, people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi make five-color glutinous rice.

In the eyes of the Buyi and Zhuang people, this is a food with beautiful connotations and auspicious meanings.

Especially during some festivals, they will make such delicacies.

Zhuang people regard five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of "good luck" and "abundance of grain". It is an excellent delicacy for entertaining guests and one of the offerings to ancestors.

Five-color glutinous rice has five different colors of soaked glutinous rice.

Glutinous rice has a very chewy texture when steamed.

It tastes much better than ordinary needle-cooked rice.

The origin of five-color glutinous rice: According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man in the village. His father died very early, and he could only depend on his mother who was paralyzed in bed.

Because he was afraid that his mother would be bored, he would carry her on his back every time he went to work in the mountains. He was also afraid that her mother would be hungry, so he would bring a bag of glutinous rice with him every time.

After a long time, he was targeted by monkeys in the mountains. One time, the monkeys snatched away the glutinous rice. In order to prevent the monkeys from snatching the glutinous rice again, the young man had an idea and kneaded the juice from the maple leaves on the roadside and added it to the glutinous rice.

, there was black glutinous rice, and the monkeys never grabbed it again.

For the above content, refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Five Color Glutinous Rice