Yao people like to eat pickled food.

"Bird Sauce" is a famous food with unique flavor of the Yao people, which is made from pickled bird meat.

Remove the feathers of the captured bird, wash it, dry it, mix it with rice flour and salt, put it in a small earthen jar, seal the mouth of the jar with a banana leaf, and you can eat it after a few days.

Yao people often use "bird wine" to entertain distinguished guests.

Sometimes, this method is also used to marinate pigs, beef, mutton, etc.

Daily dishes include soybeans, rice beans, pumpkins, peppers, poultry and livestock, etc. The Yao people of Jinxiu Dayao Mountain in Guangxi use "bird basins" to catch migratory birds and pickle them into vinegar, which is a delicacy for entertaining distinguished guests.

The Yao people also like to eat insect pupae, and they often eat pine tree pupae, kudzu pupae, wild bee pupae, bee pupae, etc.

The Yao people also like to use the characteristics of the mountainous area to process their own cane sugar, sweet potato sugar, bee sugar, etc.

Most Yao people like to drink. They usually make their own wine at home using rice, corn, sweet potatoes, etc., and often drink it 2 or 3 times a day.

The Yao people of Yunnan like to use fermented glutinous rice to make water and wine for drinking. When going out, they often use bamboo tubes to hold the water for drinking.

The Yao people also like to use cinnamon, mountain ginger and other fried tea, believing that this tea can refresh themselves and relieve fatigue.

Yao people in many areas like oil tea. They not only eat oil tea every day, but also entertain guests with oil tea.

During the Qingming Festival, every household will make rice with dyed flowers.

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