What is the significance of eating black rice?

The moral of black rice is peace and contentment, which means the beginning of sowing fields and seedlings and the harvest of one year. Eating black rice can also bless people to be strong and have more strength to carry out agricultural work, and all diseases will not be born. Black rice was originally a folk festival food in China, which had existed in the Tang Dynasty. In Jiangsu and Anhui, it has become a custom for many people to cook black rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum.

Eating black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a folk custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. One of the legends is that Mulian, a disciple of Sakyamuni, tried to dye rice with black rice leaves and cook it into black rice for his mother in hell to eat. Hungry ghosts dare not eat it. Mother is finally full, and Jiangnan people eat black rice every year to commemorate Mulian's dutiful son. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Linderae leaves belong to Lauraceae, which are mild in nature, slightly bitter in taste and fragrant in leaves. Can be used as medicine, up-regulate spleen and stomach vitality, and lower the Shaoyin kidney meridian. Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by collecting the leaves of wild plant Vaccinium bracteatum, soaking the glutinous rice in cooked soup for a long time, and then taking it out and steaming it in a wooden steamer. Its taste is fragrant and delicious, which greatly increases people's appetite.