Sugar oil glutinous rice cake on the tip of the tongue

The style is different in a hundred miles, and the customs are different in a thousand miles.

Speaking of Tujia people, we will definitely think of glutinous rice cake. Glutinous rice cake is a must-have food for Tujia people to pay New Year greetings or eat during the Chinese New Year. It is the inheritance of Tujia culture and civilization and is the finest Tujia food. There is a saying: "On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, we are making cakes and pouring wax, and there is also a little pig that needs to be killed." Therefore, every household is busy making glutinous rice cakes on this day.

In fact, making glutinous rice cake is not easy to say, but it takes a year of hard work. First, the glutinous rice is washed repeatedly with water, soaked and steamed, and then scooped into the nest. The men take turns beating it with a stick until it is cooked. Then it is put on the table, and the master kneads it evenly. Divide the dough into even round lumps and distribute them to those who participate in the cake-making process. Each of them kneads and presses the dough with both hands to make it carefully.

The making of glutinous rice cakes is not only difficult from Henan to Hunan, but also there are many patterns of glutinous rice cakes.

Some print a fish on the glutinous rice cake, which means that people have more than enough every year; some put four dots on the glutinous rice cake, which means that people will get rich all year round; some print five dots on the glutinous rice cake. The five-pointed star means that people love the motherland...

Not only are there many styles of glutinous rice cakes, but they also have various shapes. The circle represents family reunion and will never be separated; the square represents the Tujia people's uprightness and straightforwardness.

Different shapes represent different meanings, and different colors represent different meanings.

White represents a person's purity; red represents the prosperous life of the Tujia people; cyan and white represent the innocence of the Tujia people...

In the past, glutinous rice cakes were even more popular. An indispensable gift for Tujia people to pay New Year's greetings. As the saying goes, "When you pay New Year's greetings, dada comes forward." Because glutinous rice cake is a symbol of reunion, perfection, ingots, etc. It expresses congratulations and greetings to the host's family. No gift is more important than glutinous rice cake. It doesn't seem to have enough weight or respect.

Tujia glutinous rice cake is so inseparable from the Tujia New Year.

Tujia glutinous rice cake is a symbol of unity, civilization, friendship and harmony of the Tujia people. I hope it will be passed down from generation to generation like other Tujia cultures and prosper forever. I hope Tujia glutinous rice cake will bring good blessings to the people. I hope people will take advantage of the reform. The spring breeze brings the fragrance of glutinous rice cakes to all corners of the country, and I hope that the fragrance of glutinous rice cakes will float more and more in the spring breeze of the motherland...