Customs of Mulao People

The Mulao people live in an area of rolling hills and peaks, where there are many mountains and narrow land, so there is little arable land, and the main crops are rice, corn, sweet potatoes, wheat and so on. Therefore, the diet of the Mulao hill country is based on corn and rice, and pickles are made in every house. The Mulao people like to drink and smoke, and do not eat animal hearts.

Homemade Meals The Mulao people eat rice as their staple food, supplemented by wheat, potatoes, corn and beans. There are sticky rice and glutinous rice, which are used as daily meals and glutinous rice as food ingredients for festivals.

The Mulao people eat three meals a day. They eat porridge for breakfast and dry rice for dinner. Most families also eat congee for lunch.

Methods of cooking wheat: Wheat is ground into powder and baked as pancakes or eaten as dumplings; sometimes sweet potatoes are boiled, the skin is removed, and mashed into a paste, which is mixed with wheat flour to make a sweet and savory meal.

Specialties Dog Tongue Patties "Dog Tongue Patties" are made of glutinous rice, then wrapped in tung leaves, shaped like a dog's tongue, from which it gets its name. It is soft and delicious, sweet flavor, and then sprinkled with fragrant sesame sugar powder, it is even more memorable. It also has a special significance, otherwise how would the songs sing it with love! It turns out that the 15th and 8th of August is the time for Mulao young men and women to "walk the slopes". After singing the songs, young men and women would sit around and exchange the "dog tongue patties" they had brought with them, which meant that love was as sweet as sesame sugar. Pillow-head Rice Dumplings Every family in Mulao Mountain Village makes pillow-head rice dumplings to celebrate the festivals. Legend has it that the Mulao dumplings were taught by a group of Zhuang children who chopped wood to the Mulao children who herded cows. Each pillow rice dumpling weighs only five or six pounds, and it is often enough for a family to eat one. The practice is to soak the glutinous rice for a few hours, fish it out to dry and then put some alkaline water to mix it well; then spread the rice dumpling leaves one layer at a time, about one foot wide, put on the glutinous rice to a certain height and then add the leaves around the edge, superimpose a layer of leaves and put a layer of rice on it, just like the valley around the valley. Finally, use the rope to tie the cord firmly, put into the pot to cook a day and night. The season for wrapping pillow dumplings is February. White Mulao Meat White Mulao Meat is a flavorful food in the hill country. It is made by boiling a whole piece of pork or a whole chicken or duck (with the feathers and internal organs removed) in water, then cutting the meat into small pieces when it is cooked and serving it with a sauce. The meat is cooked to a very high standard, and is removed from the cooking pot when it is ripe. Therefore, whenever you cut the meat is often near the bone is still caught in the blood, so that the meat cooked out of the tender and flavorful.

Duck Sauce Duck sauce is a delicious and colorful condiment in the Mulao mountainous area. When the duck is killed, duck blood is left behind (not solidified), which is mixed with sour water from the family's sour altar, and then mixed well with chopsticks, so that the blood becomes slightly black, and then a little bit of salt and grated ginger are added. Some do not boil it, thinking that it retains the "freshness of the blood"; most boil it a little and roll it. Seasoned with duck sauce and eat white meat, its flavor is incomparable.

Alcohol Culture Chung Yeung Wine is the favorite traditional drink of the farmers in Mulao Mountain. The more you drink it, the more you want to drink it, and the more you get drunk, the more you wake up and don't feel dizzy. Every year on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month, every family in Mulao Mountain Village selects some of the best glutinous rice to make wine. The production method of Mulao wine is similar to that of sweet wine in Han and Zhuang regions, and the wine is sealed and stored for a period of time before it is opened for drinking.