Chinese name: Zhuang diet
Foreign name: Bouxcuengh
Ethnic minorities in China: the most populous nation.
Inhabitation: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province
Dietary customs: Zhuang people like to eat rice and rice porridge in rice-growing areas, and they like to make all kinds of zongzi, zanba, cakes and other foods with glutinous rice. In mountainous areas, corn, millet and potatoes are the staple foods.
Rice information:
The staple food of Zhuang nationality is rice. In addition, there are corn taro, sweet potato, cassava and buckwheat supplemented by black rice beans, white rice beans and mung beans. The variety of corn is second only to that of rice, among which waxy corn is one of the excellent varieties cultivated by Zhuang people, and it can be used to make brown seeds as delicious as Ciba and glutinous rice. Rice is the main food in Pingdong and wealthy families in Zhuang areas, while corn and potatoes are the main food in mountainous areas and poor families. Historically, the threshing of brown rice was carried out by using a wooden trough for hulling, a water mill or a stone mortar. A stone mill is used to grind corn flour. The practice of rice is braised rice, steamed rice, boiled rice or porridge. The special holiday staple food of Zhuang nationality represents the national characteristics of food, including colorful, delicious and fragrant five-color rice, Zanba, oil pile and sand cake; There are all kinds of zongzi with strange shapes; There is a unique way to eat raw rice; There is golden sticky rice; There are also rice noodles that are popular both on holidays and at ordinary times. Zhuang people eat rice, corn, dry rice or porridge three times a day, that is, breakfast, lunch and dinner, while farmers eat four meals a day.
Meat information:
The traditional meat products of Zhuang nationality include pork, chicken, duck, goose, mutton, beef, horse and wild animals. Among these meats, boiled chicken, roast pig and raw fish are more distinctive. The practice of white-chopped chicken is to pluck the female chicken that has not laid eggs, wash it, take out the internal organs, wipe a little salt in the abdominal cavity, put a mass of ginger in a clear water pot, cook it until it is ripe in 1989, and cut it into pieces one inch long. Dipping in seasonings made of ginger, garlic, onion, coriander, soy sauce, salt, chicken oil and so on is delicious, tender, crisp, fragrant and delicious, which is a delicacy for strong people to treat guests. Roast pig is a kind of local pig of 30-40 kg, which is tender and not fattening. After killing, the internal organs are removed and various spices are coated on the skin. The whole pig is put on a charcoal fire with iron bars or bamboo and slowly rotated. When the skin is yellow and crispy, it is cut into squares and put into bowls and seats. In some places, the whole pig is cut to get what it needs. Raw fish is prepared by scaling carp or grass carp weighing three to five kilograms, cleaning their viscera, removing fish bones, drying the fish with gauze paper, slicing the fish, putting it into a large plate, adding sesame oil, coriander, peanuts, ginger, onion, garlic, sugar, vinegar and salt, and marinating for eating. Delicious, sweet and delicious.
Main food:
There are many kinds of fresh vegetables of Zhuang nationality in four seasons, such as green vegetables, radishes, beans, melons, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and so on. Green vegetables are divided into cabbage, mustard, cabbage, water spinach, head vegetables, kale and so on. There are also many varieties of beans and melons. Strong people like to eat stir-fry, which is fresh and nutritious when cooked a little. Strong people seldom eat stew. Zhuang people have a special love for food in mountain products. Bamboo shoots, tremella, fungus and fungi are the most precious.
Wine information:
In the past, the drinks of Zhuang people were mainly rice wine, sweet potato wine and cassava wine brewed by themselves, and their alcohol content was not high. Among them, rice wine is the main drink for festivals and hospitality. It has been a history of thousands of years to be a strong man with sweet wine. Strong people are used to welcoming guests with sweet wine first. Other wines of Zhuang nationality, such as Gecko wine and Sanshe wine, are all medicinal liquor. Gecko wine is made by soaking Gecko and Angelica sinensis in good wine, which has the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and moistening lung. Three-snake wine is a kind of precious medicinal wine, which is made by soaking poisonous Dioscorea nipponica, Ampelopsis, Bungarus bungeana or Bungarus bungeana in good wine, and adding some herbs.
Cool drinks:
The traditional refreshing drink of Zhuang nationality in summer is bean jelly juice. Bean jelly fruit is a kind of small bush fruit as big as duck egg skin, and there is white liquid in it. After adding water and heating, it forms a transparent semi-fluid. Add some brown sugar water as a drink, and the thirst will be relieved immediately. Nowadays, all kinds of modern drinks have also entered the family life of Zhuang people. Besides traditional fine wine, there are more Guilin Sanhua, Maotai and Golden Brandy on their tables. In summer, strong villages with temperatures as high as 30 degrees can also enjoy cool drinks such as iced soda and ice cream.