How do Buyi people make colorful flowers and rice dyed with various plants?

Buyi people's food culture has a long history. For Buyi people, glutinous rice is one of their favorite traditional foods. During the festival, Buyi people choose the best glutinous rice and dye it with various plants. Friends and relatives give each other rice, which symbolizes good luck and shows their brilliant life. So how is the five-color rice made?

1, the beautiful meaning of five-color glutinous rice

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of Buyi, Zhuang and other ethnic groups. Glutinous rice is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Guangxi, people of all ethnic groups generally make five-color glutinous rice. Zhuang people like colored glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. Colorful glutinous rice is colorful, bright and attractive; Natural pigments are beneficial and harmless to human body, and each has its own fragrance and flavor. Five-color glutinous rice has good color, fragrance and taste, and also has the functions of nourishing, fitness, medical treatment and beauty.

5-color rice is made of dyed plants.

On March 3rd, Tomb-Sweeping Day was connected, and people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi had a six-day holiday, which was the exclusive welfare of the people of Guangxi. These days, the market is full of fresh plants picked by farmers from the mountains to make colored glutinous rice. Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack in Zhuang area, which is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. Every household in Zhuang nationality likes to cook five-color glutinous rice to entertain guests, catch songs or worship ancestors and gods.

Postscript: Five-color glutinous rice can be said to be the most representative food of Buyi people. The main raw materials of five-color glutinous rice are glutinous rice and natural plant dyes collected from the mountains (it is worth mentioning that Buyi people respect nature very much, and the dyes usually used to color food or cloth are taken from nature). These plant dyes used to make five-color glutinous rice are hard to find, because they are usually dispersed and each dye can only grow in a specific place, so it takes a lot of time and energy to make five-color glutinous rice.