Where is the specialty in Gongcheng Baba?

There are more than a dozen kinds of Baba in Gongcheng cuisine, including Baba in water, Baba in taro, Baba in radish, Baba in sugar, Baba in a boat, and Baba in a boat.

Gongcheng people have a soft spot for Baba. As the saying goes, "Eat camellia, don't forget Baba." It is said that although many people do manual labor, they usually only drink oil tea for breakfast instead of eating, and rely on a few BaBa to satisfy their hunger. Making Baba and eating Baba is a symbol of the festival. Every household should cook and eat Baba on holidays, and the Baba of each solar term is different.

Tomb-Sweeping Day makes mugwort leaves: In the fields of Gongcheng, mugwort leaves used to make mugwort leaves can be seen everywhere. This kind of wormwood leaf is similar to wormwood used to ward off evil spirits during the Dragon Boat Festival, but it has no hard and tall stems. The made wormwood has no fiber at all, and the whole green is crystal clear. Eating it in your mouth gives off the unique fragrance of wormwood leaves. People in Gongcheng made Alba, first to worship ancestors, second to use Alba, a medicinal potherb, to cool and detoxify, to get rid of diseases and strengthen the body, and third, to make Alba to get the whole family together and enhance the affection between them.

Making brown cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival: Gongcheng people call brown seeds yellow hair brown, because the material that binds brown seeds in Gongcheng is a kind of grass called yellow hair leaves, which is a local specialty of Gongcheng. Gongcheng yellow hair brown is very big, which is very different from brown seeds produced in Nanning and Liuzhou. Generally, the diameter is 10 cm and the length is 30 to 40 cm. Gongcheng Huang Mao Brown is made of pure glutinous rice. Generally, after steaming, it is cut into thin slices about 1 cm thick and dipped in ginger juice, which has a special flavor. Another purpose of Gongcheng Huangmao Brown is to give "festivals" (gifts) to the young people of Zhang Yue family in the future.

Make a dog tongue comb in July and a half: Gongcheng people solemnly commemorate their ancestors on July 14 or July 7-14 of the lunar calendar. At this time of the year, every household will "invite" the ancestors' spirits home for sacrifice, and one of the main foods is the dog tongue comb. Dog tongue Baba got its name because it looks like a dog tongue. Generally, glutinous rice is ground into powder, added with yellow sugar, and mixed with water to make a dog-tongue-shaped Ciba ball. Then wrap it in black sesame powder, wrap it in Ciba leaves one by one, and steam it in a large pot. A major feature of dog's tongue is that it is not easy to turn sour in July when the temperature is very high.

Mid-Autumn Festival jiaozi: jiaozi can be said to be "super jiaozi" because it is very similar to eating jiaozi. The difference is that the volume of pot-bellied dumplings is several times or even ten times that of ordinary dumplings, and the fillings are also much richer. There are generally mushrooms, fungus, dried yellow bamboo shoots, betel nut taro and other Gongcheng mountain products and local products. China's Mid-Autumn Festival pays attention to the reunion of the full moon, and the whole family gets together to eat two or three pot-bellied cakes. That scene will never be inferior to the Lantern Festival when the family eats jiaozi together.

In addition, Gongcheng people will also make Niu Jiao zongzi, muffins, cooked rice cakes, soaked rice cakes, enba, radish cakes, celery cakes and taro cakes on the vernal equinox, June 6th, winter solstice, New Year's Eve and Spring Festival. With the continuous development of tourism in Gongcheng, Gongcheng specialty snacks and Gongcheng Camellia Baba are gradually known by the world and become the necessary flavor food for Gongcheng tourists.