what food will the Zhuang people make on March 3rd? What is the special food of the Zhuang people on March 3rd?

Five-color glutinous rice. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi generally make five-color glutinous rice. The Zhuang family loves five-color glutinous rice very much and regards it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. The five-color glutinous rice is colorful, bright and attractive; Natural pigments are beneficial and harmless to human body, each with its own fragrance and flavor. Five-color glutinous rice has good color, fragrance and taste, and also has the functions of nourishing, fitness, medical care and beauty. The taste of steamed pork with pork belly powder is even more indescribable.

making five-color glutinous rice is more skillful. Need 351g glutinous rice. Black glutinous rice, that is, using the skin of maple leaves and their tender stems, is mashed in a mortar, slightly air-dried and immersed in a certain amount of water. After soaking for a day and a night, the leaf residue is taken out and filtered to obtain the black dye solution. Black dye juice should be boiled in a pot to 51-61 degrees, and then glutinous rice should be immersed in it.

Yellow dye can be extracted from the fruits and tubers of plants such as yellow flower juice (Buddleja officinalis, called "Huamai" in Zhuang language), gardenia jasminoides Ellis and Dioscorea zingiberensis. Boil yellow flower juice, or mash gardenia jasminoides Ellis and soak it in water to get yellow dye solution, or mash turmeric and mix it with glutinous rice and rub it hard to get yellow glutinous rice (it can be steamed directly without soaking).

Red dye and purple dye are made from the same variety of red and blue grass (called gogyaemq in Zhuang language) with different leaves. The leaves are slightly longer and darker, the boiled color is thicker, and the soaked rice becomes purple; The leaves are round, the color is light, the boiled color is light, and the soaked rice becomes bright red.

after extracting the four kinds of juice, put different amounts of rice into them to soak, and then put them in a steamer for about an hour after coloring, so that glutinous rice with five colors (black, red, yellow, purple and white) can be steamed. The five-color glutinous rice made in this way is bright in color, colorful, crystal clear and bright, and it is moist, soft, delicious, mellow and slightly sweet, which is really memorable to eat. The five-color glutinous rice dyed with natural plants is not only beautiful and delicious, but also has certain medicinal value. Red bluegrass has the function of promoting blood circulation. In the Qing Dynasty, Argument on the Class of Lvshantang said: "Red flowers are red and juicy, which can promote blood circulation", and "yellow flower rice" or gardenia has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood. The refined rice cooked with maple leaves can strengthen bones and muscles, benefit the stomach, be able to do things and replenish marrow.

Origin story:

There is another interesting legend about the origin of five-color glutinous rice. In ancient times, there was a young man named Tenon in Zhuangjia village. His father had already passed away, and he only lived with his mother who was paralyzed in bed. Tenon is very filial to his mother, fearing that she will be bored at home alone. Sometimes she goes with her when she goes up the mountain to cut firewood or plant seedlings in the fields. Every time, he brought a big bag of his mother's favorite glutinous rice with him, so that his mother could eat it whenever she was hungry. This move of Tenon's mother and son was noticed by a monkey on the mountain.

Once, while Tenon was chopping wood on the other side of the mountain, the monkey sneaked up to his mother and snatched a big bag of steaming glutinous rice. Mother couldn't move, but watched the monkey take the glutinous rice. It was like this several times in a row, and Tenon was a little helpless. Looking at his hungry mother, Tenon tugged at the maple leaves around him, thinking about how to prevent the monkeys from taking away the glutinous rice. Suddenly, Tenon found that his hand pinching the maple leaves was stained with black, and immediately had a brainwave. He immediately cut the maple leaves on the tree home, mashed them and soaked them in water to get black juice, and then soaked the glutinous rice in the black juice.

the next day, the black glutinous rice was picked up and cooked, and suddenly a fragrance filled the whole house. Mother shouted in the room, what smells so good! Tenon said excitedly, Dabaa (Dabaa is Zhuang language, meaning mother), this is black glutinous rice, how fragrant and sweet it is! This day is the third day of the third lunar month. In the early morning, Tenon took his mother up the mountain to cut wood. He wrapped black glutinous rice with banana leaves and deliberately showed a little black color. When the monkey saw such a mass of dark things, he thought that Tenon was using some poison to trick it, but he dared not touch it and ran away.

On this day, Tenon ate black glutinous rice, and his mouth was dry and he didn't feel tired. Instead, he felt full of strength and hit more firewood. From then on, Tenon and his mother went up the mountain to cut wood, and they all brought black glutinous rice, so there was no need to worry about the monkeys taking the glutinous rice away. Later, the Zhuang family learned to cook black glutinous rice, and then gradually made yellow, red and purple glutinous rice with gardenia, red and blue grass, which gradually evolved into today's five-color glutinous rice. It has become one of the favorite flavor foods of Zhuang family.

what should I pay attention to when eating glutinous rice?

1. Glutinous rice should not be eaten in excess

Although glutinous rice is very nutritious, and eating glutinous rice can regulate our health, we must pay attention to it, because if we eat too much glutinous rice, it will increase the burden on the stomach and affect normal digestion. Therefore, we must pay attention to the need to control the amount of glutinous rice at ordinary times, not to say that glutinous rice is very nutritious, and the more we eat, the better, only to do it in moderation.

2. People with diabetes should not eat glutinous rice

Many people have diabetes in their lives. Once they have diabetes, their diet needs to be very particular. For some foods with high sugar content, they must eat as little as possible or not. Although glutinous rice has a particularly high nutritional value, the sugar content in glutinous rice is not low. Therefore, for diabetics, try not to eat glutinous rice at ordinary times. If you like glutinous rice very much, you should also eat it.

3. Glutinous rice can't be eaten with apples

Many people like to eat apples when eating glutinous rice. Although it feels very good, this way of eating is very undesirable, because once some nutrients in glutinous rice are combined with fruit acid in apples, it will seriously stimulate their stomachs, which not only reduces their nutritional value, but also harms their gastrointestinal health, so everyone must avoid eating glutinous rice and apples together.