In Lijiang over the Dragon Boat Festival to eat what characteristics of the dumplings?

The Dragon Boat Festival in Lijiang will eat other places are not easy to buy ham stuffed rice dumplings; in Lijiang, there are also very characteristic grass ash rice dumplings.

Yunnan this gray grass ash rice dumplings, as the name suggests, is the use of burned grass ash mixed in glutinous rice, and then wrapped in a variety of ingredients made of rice dumplings. But don't think this kind of dumplings are not edible, in fact, this kind of grass ash in ancient times is a good medicine, on the digestive especially good.

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In Lijiang, the Naxi people in the early morning of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, every family to eat sugar dates sticky rice, drink xionghuang wine, door inserted in front of the white Penny, three Ge Pu, as well as the two barley ears.

The elders will give the children under 15 years old the "colorful long life wisp" wrapped in five-color cotton thread. There are rules about how to do this, with boys wrapped around the left wrist and girls wrapped around the right wrist. "Renewal of life line" to wear a month, until the last day of the Torch Festival will be unraveled and burned.