Origin: There was a young Zhuang man named Tenon, whose father died young, and he lived alone with his paralyzed mother. Tenon was very filial. Afraid that his mother would be bored at home alone, he carried his mother up the mountain to chop firewood and transplant rice in the field. Every time, he will bring a big bag of his mother's favorite glutinous rice to her, so that she can eat it at any time when she is hungry. This move of Tenon's mother and son was seen by a monkey on the mountain. The monkey took advantage of the tenon to chop wood on the mountain and sneaked to his mother and took the glutinous rice. Mom can't move, she can only watch the monkey take glutinous rice. For several days, Tenon looked at his hungry mother and tugged at the maple leaves around him helplessly, but he couldn't think of any way. Suddenly, tenon found that his hand holding the maple leaf was black, which turned out to be stained with black maple leaf juice. Looking at the black fingers, Tenon had a brainwave. He immediately cut the maple leaves off the tree from home, put them in a stone mortar, soaked them in water for a day and a night to get black juice, and then soaked the glutinous rice in the black juice for a night. The next morning, black glutinous rice was picked up and cooked, and suddenly a fragrance filled the whole house. Mother shouted in the room, "tenon, what smells so good?" Tenon said excitedly, "This is black glutinous rice, how fragrant and sweet it is!" This day is the third day of the third lunar month. Early in the morning, Tenon took his mother up the mountain to cut firewood. He wrapped black glutinous rice with banana leaves, deliberately revealing a little black. The monkey saw it, thought it was poison, dared not touch it, and ran away. On this day, Tenon ate black glutinous rice, but his mouth was thirsty, he felt energetic and made more firewood. From then on, tenon and his mother went up the mountain to cut wood, all with black glutinous rice. Later, the dealer learned tenon, and every household cooked black glutinous rice. Later, the clever banker learned to make yellow, red and purple glutinous rice with gardenia and red bluegrass, and finally evolved into today's five-color glutinous rice.

Five-color glutinous rice, named after its five colors of black, red, yellow, white and purple, is also called "black rice". Five-color glutinous rice is usually made on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Zhuang people like colored glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.