Five-color glutinous rice is commonly known as five-color rice, also known as black rice, green rice or flower rice. It is named because glutinous rice has five colors: black, gray, yellow, purple and white. It is a traditional food for Zhuang people to entertain guests. Every Zhuang family likes to cook colorful glutinous rice in traditional folk festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, the third day of the third lunar month, the eighth day of April, Niuwang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. This kind of flavor food is integrated with the activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors and entertaining gods, praying for ancestors to bless a bumper harvest. Full of national and local interests. They select high-quality glutinous rice, collect wisteria, yellow flowers, maple leaves and red and blue (red silk thread), soak the liquid, mix them with glutinous rice respectively, and then steam them together, which is not only bright in color, but also pure in fragrance, symbolizing a better life.

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material

300 grams of glutinous rice

30 grams of sugar

Proper amount of water

Practice steps

1, prepare colorful glutinous rice, each color is 60g. Soak in clear water for 2 hours.

2. Remove the soaked water and put the glutinous rice into the lunch box in layers.

3. Steam in cold water for 25 minutes.

4. Set the plate after cooking, sprinkle with sugar when eating, just like eating zongzi when I was a child.

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