Why do you want to eat black rice in long summer?

Black rice is also called black rice, so why eat black rice in the long summer? Let's have a look.

Why does Chang Xia eat black rice and black rice? The Tang Dynasty called black rice, also known as black rice and Ami rice. It is a purple-black glutinous rice, which is known as a well-known food variety with a long history in China. It is said that it was originally created by Taoism. According to the ancient prescription of Taoist dietotherapy nutrition, it is a meal made by soaking the leaves of Nanzhuang in rice and steaming.

Southern candle tree, also known as Vaccinium bracteatum, people eat its leaf juice, which can strengthen muscles and benefit the face. Collect the leaves of the wild plant Sapium sebiferum, boil the soup, soak the glutinous rice in the boiled soup for half a day, then take it out and steam it in a wooden steamer. This kind of rice is oily and fragrant. It is said that eating black rice can dispel wind and detoxify and prevent mosquito bites. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Lindera leaves belong to Lauraceae, which are mild in nature, slightly bitter in taste, fragrant in leaves, and can be used as medicine, which can increase the vitality of the spleen and stomach, and lower the channels of Shaoyin and kidney. Therefore, eating black rice also has the effect of dietotherapy.

At first, I heard that black rice is related to the beautiful emotional story Lotus Lantern. A bowl of black rice made the agarwood mother and son survive the difficulties and finally came together. Eating black rice was first seen in the literature. Dietary customs appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and the practices were different in different periods. Chen Zangqi's Ten Kinds of Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty recorded: black rice method, taking candlestick stems and leaves, mashing them, soaking them in glutinous rice for nine times, steaming them for nine times, and the rice grains are tight and small. Bagged, can it be suitable for the distance? . Does the great poet Du Fu have it in To Li Bai? Is there no green rice to make my color look good? A beautiful sentence. Green rice, also called Yunnan candle rice, is black rice.

In the Song Dynasty, Lin Hong of the Southern Song Dynasty also recorded the method of making green rice in his book "Shanjia Qing Palace": According to herbal medicine, bamboo wood, now known as black rice grass, also known as Eclipta prostrata, is also clear. Collect the island juice of branches and leaves, soak it in white fine japonica rice, no matter how much, wait for an hour or two, evaporate the rice and store it in a fast blue color. If you use it, count the meters with boiling water first and cook it for a meal. . ? Its cooking method: take raw rice, white japonica rice, one pot and five pots of rice, and one pot and two pots. With Candlewood? Boil the bark of miscellaneous stems to make it extremely cold, so it can be cooked with rice and rice.

Qu Dajun, a poet in Qing Dynasty, also had it? Society, every family, southern incense rice, Russell's youth and essence? This poem has been handed down all the time. What is contained in the Compendium of Materia Medica during the Qianlong period? Wang Sheng Yu Yun: Black rice grass is a southern candle. Today, mountain people choose cold food to enter the market. Who sells black rice to others? . Black rice has been passed down from generation to generation and has now become a traditional folk food.

In China, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places, people still keep the ancient custom of eating black rice in April of the lunar calendar. Some places eat it on the Qingming Cold Food Festival, and more people eat it on the eighth day of April.

There are many legends about the origin of black rice. Legend has it that during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin was framed by Pang Juan and put into a pigsty. In order to hide the surveillance of Pang Juan's minions, the old jailer cooked glutinous rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum, kneaded it into a rice ball that looked like pig manure, and secretly gave it to Sun Bin. After eating this kind of rice balls, Sun Bin not only survived, but also became stronger. Finally escaped from prison and got revenge. Because Sun Bin first ate black rice in the long summer, the custom of eating black rice in the long summer spread all over Hangzhou.

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the Nirvana Festival of Liyang people in Jiangsu Province. There is another saying here. Once upon a time, there was an old lady who loved roast goose. Every time she wants to eat goose, she puts a red-hot iron plate in the alley, with a bowl of soy sauce at one end and a bowl of balsamic vinegar at the other. Drive the goose into the alley, so hot that it runs at both ends and runs to this end to eat soy sauce. Run to the other side and have a bite of balsamic vinegar, and soon you will become a roasted goose.

After the old lady died, Yan sent her to hell and punished her. Her son is Mulian, a famous monk. Monk Mulian knew that his mother was suffering in the underworld and often gave her food, but every time she sent it, many kids took it away, and her mother couldn't eat it at all. Manglietia went up the mountain to pick Vaccinium bracteatum, soaked it in black water, cooked it and sent it. When the imps in the underworld saw that rice was black, they dared not eat it. Only then did his mother eat it. Later, Liyang people ate black rice every year to commemorate their filial son Mulian. Eat black rice? This custom has been handed down.

On the eighth day of April every year, local people give each other black rice. If someone dies in the village, on the eighth day, everyone will send black rice to the deceased's home to express their condolences. So from the beginning of April, young people in the village went to Shantou Mountain dozens of miles away to collect black rice grass. Except for the black rice used at home, the rest were picked up and sold in the town.