What are the dietary habits of the Zhuang?

The Zhuang in most areas are accustomed to eating three meals a day, while those in a few areas also eat four meals, i.e., a small meal is added between the midday and dinner. Breakfast and Chinese food are relatively simple and usually eat thin rice, while dinner is richer, the details of which can be found below.

1, most areas of the Zhuang people are accustomed to eating three meals a day, there are a few areas of the Zhuang people also eat four meals, that is, in the middle of the dinner plus a small meal. Breakfast and Chinese food is relatively simple, usually eat thin rice, dinner is the main meal, eat more dry rice, dishes are also more abundant. Rice and corn are the grains that are abundant in the Zhuang region and have naturally become their staple food.

2, the production of staple foods in a variety of ways, such as rice, indica, round-grained rice, glutinous rice and other varieties, usually used for cooking, porridge, but also often steamed into a rice flour to eat, delicious flavor. Japonica rice, glutinous rice can also be soaked into sweet rice wine that is mash, nutritious, often eaten in winter, can play a role in cold nourishment, glutinous rice is commonly used to do patties, rice dumplings, five-color glutinous rice, etc., is the essential food of the Zhuang festival.

3, the traditional meat of the Zhuang people, pork, chicken, duck, goose, mutton, beef, horse meat, as well as mountain birds and beasts. Among these meats, the more distinctive ones are white chopped chicken, roasted pig and sashimi. Zhuang folk, every year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar Mid-Autumn Festival, every family makes fish sashimi to eat.

4, the Zhuang food, fresh in all seasons, a wide variety of green vegetables, turnips, beans, melons, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and other categories. Green vegetables are divided into cabbage, mustard, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, head cabbage, kale, etc.. There are also many varieties of beans and melons. Strong people love to eat fried vegetables, fried vegetables can be eaten slightly cooked, taste fresh and nutritious, they seldom eat stewed vegetables, but the consumption of mountain products have a special hobby to bamboo shoots, silver ear, fungus, mushrooms are the most valuable.

5, Zhuang people in the past, the main liquor is home brewed rice wine, white potato wine and tapioca wine, degrees are not high. Among them, rice wine is the main drink for festivals and hospitality. The Zhuang people have been making sweet wine for thousands of years, and they are used to welcoming guests by offering them sweet wine first. Other Zhuang wine, such as mealybug wine, three snake wine, etc., are medicinal wine, mealybug wine is made of mealybugs, angelica soaked in good wine and become, there are tonic kidneys, aphrodisiacs, moistening the lungs and other efficacy.