Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of many ethnic minorities in Guangxi. Do you know which ethnic groups?

One or three ethnic groups are concerned with five-color rice.

1. Zhuang nationality: On March 3rd every year, Zhuang people dye glutinous rice in red, yellow, purple, black and other colors with plant juice such as maple leaves. After steaming, they take it to the mountain to offer sacrifices to a man named Tegui. Some people think that Tenon's mother is trying to solve the problem of monkeys stealing glutinous rice. Tegui is a Zhuang nationality. He used stratagems to save the people from imperial grain.

2. Buyi people: There is a saying among Buyi people: "Whether you are smart or not depends on whether his family cooks glutinous rice well", so every March 3rd, Buyi girls are busy dyeing and steaming glutinous rice.

3. Miao people: Miao people believe that the five-color glutinous rice symbolizes that people of all ethnic groups are United like glutinous rice balls, fighting for the sky and the land, working hard, sharing weal and woe. Five-color glutinous rice is also a kind of emotional object that Miao children express their love. Second, the five colors are similar.

1. Zhuang nationality: the glutinous rice without pigment is white, the glutinous rice with purple rattan juice is purple, the glutinous rice with yellow flower juice (called "Huamai" in Zhuang language) is yellow, the glutinous rice with maple leaf juice is black, and the glutinous rice with red and blue grass juice (called gogyaemq in Zhuang language) is red.

2. Buyi people: glutinous rice without pigment is white, purple with Arnebia euchroma juice, yellow with glutinous rice flower juice, black with Liquidambar formosana leaf juice and red with mangrove root juice.

3. Miao nationality: glutinous rice without pigment is white, yellow in yellow water, black in Vaccinium bracteatum water, original blue in purple blue water and red in magenta water.

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of Zhuang, Miao and Buyi ethnic groups in Guangxi. They all like it very much, and even regard it as a mascot, which represents good luck and good harvest. Especially in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival, they must make this five-color glutinous rice, not only for eating, but also for offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods to pray for their ancestors to bless the harvest.

The five colors are white, yellow, purple, red and black, and the white of white glutinous rice is the color of its own rice. The black color of black glutinous rice is made by soaking rice with maple leaf dye. Red glutinous rice red is made by soaking rice with red and blue grass. The purple color of purple glutinous rice is the color cooked with red and blue grass. The yellow color of yellow glutinous rice is made from turmeric.