What do the Yao people like to eat? The most characteristic ethnic snacks of Yao people

The Yao people are an ancient ethnic group, mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of several provinces and regions in southern China, and are a typical mountainous ethnic group in southern China. They are mainly engaged in farming, practicing shifting cultivation, hunting, fishing and gathering at the same time, with more developed handicrafts; the settlement area produces high-quality red rice and medicinal herbs.

In the past, the Yao people often added corn, millet, sweet potatoes, cassava, taro, bean curd and so on to their rice porridge or rice. Sometimes they also used the methods of "simmering" or "roasting" to process food, such as simmering sweet potatoes and other potatoes, simmering bitter bamboo shoots, roasting young corn, roasting poi, etc.

The Yao people also use the method of "roasting" to process food.

Living in the mountains of the Yao people, cold food habits, food production, are considered easy to carry and storage, so the staple food, side dishes both rice dumplings, bamboo rice are their favorite food production. Labor Yao are on the ground picnic, everyone together in a piece, out of the dishes brought *** with the food, while the staple food, but each eat their own food carried.

Dietary habits

The vegetables commonly eaten are various kinds of melons, beans, greens, radishes, chili peppers, as well as bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, ferns, toon, yellow flowers and so on. The Yao region also produces a variety of fruits. Vegetables are often made into dried or pickled vegetables. Some Yao in Yunnan prefer to make their vegetables very light, basically boiling them in plain water with salt. Some of them are directly boiled in white water and then dipped in dipping water prepared with salt and chili peppers to maintain the original flavor of different vegetables; meat is also often processed into bacon.

The Yao people love to eat pickled food." Bird vinegar", is the Yao people unique flavor of the famous food, pickled with bird meat. Will capture the bird hair washing, drying, mixed with rice flour and salt, into a small mouth tile altar, with banana leaves to seal the altar mouth, a few days later you can take food. Yao people often use "bird vinegar" to entertain guests. Sometimes, also use this method of marinating pork, beef, mutton and so on. Yao people also like to eat insect chrysalis, often eat pine chrysalis, kudzu chrysalis, wild bee chrysalis, bee chrysalis and so on. The Yao people also like to use the mountainous areas to process and make their own cane sugar, sweet potato sugar, bee sugar, etc.?

The Yao people mostly like to drink, usually at home with rice, corn, sweet potatoes and other home-brewed, often drink 2 or 3 times a day. Yunnan Yao people like to use the mash soaked water wine to drink, go out, commonly used bamboo tube to put when drinking water.

Yao people also like to use cinnamon, mountain ginger and other fried tea, that this tea has a refreshing, clear fatigue effect. Many areas of the Yao people like to play oil tea, not only their own daily diet, and with oil tea to entertain guests. When the Qingming Festival, each family will do dyeing flower rice to eat.

Banquets are known as "Yao three gifts" of "tea baths to receive the wind wine; the whole cottage public feast guests of the "bowl of wine string of meat"; mountain treasures and wild game miscellaneous "offer fresh"; with the famous treasure "dragon intestine" to receive the wind of the "Dragon Intestine Seat", etc. In addition, there are mediation of civil disputes, the "Dragon Intestine Seat". In addition, there are also mediation of civil disputes "door to hang red wine", announced that the break off the ousted "fried beans and boiled eggs". Among them, many food customs are quite interesting, such as proposing marriage with a packet of meat and two gourds of rice wine, the woman agreed to accept the meat does not agree to puncture the gourd; son-in-law selection often "buried eggs", depending on the changes in the decision to choose; the girl got married to the neighbors of the gift of burnt soybeans; the divorce ceremony for the "break the bamboo tube", divorced each side of the tube of wine, exchange drink after cutting the bamboo tube and then break up in this peace.　

The Yao people who worship Panzou forbid the eating of dog meat and turtle meat; the Yao people who worship Miluoduo forbid the eating of sow meat and eagle meat; the vast majority of the Yao people forbid the eating of pork and snake meat; the women forbid the eating of lard for the first few days after the delivery of a baby; the worship of the gods forbids the use of dogs, cats, snakes and frogs; the hunting of beasts must be preceded by the offering of sacrifices to the gods of the mountains before they can be divided and eaten.