Miao diet

The daily staple food of Miao people is rice, corn, sorghum, millet and buckwheat. Non-staple food is a common fruit and vegetable in southwest mountainous areas. Miao people in southern Guizhou, western Hunan and Guangxi have more rice production because of topography, so they take rice as their staple food, while Miao people in northern Guizhou and western Guizhou rely on mountains to eat, and their daily staple food is mainly corn, buckwheat, sorghum and other miscellaneous grains suitable for mountain growth.

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Dietary preference

The Miao people are acidophilic, which is one of the biggest characteristics of Miao people's eating habits. The formation of this custom is related to the natural geographical environment. Southwest Miao people are located in mountainous areas, with inconvenient transportation and four distinct seasons, so they invented a method of storing food, that is, curing. Seasonal vegetables and meat that can't be eaten will be kept in jars, which can usually be kept for three to five months or even years.

In the Miao family, every household has jar vegetables and sour soup. There are many kinds of jar dishes, from vegetables and fruits to chicken, duck and fish, which can basically be made into jar sauerkraut. Miao people like sour, sour and spicy seeds and sour fish, which is their great love. When cooking fresh vegetables, they often like to mix sour soup and sauerkraut foam to taste. The formation of this eating habit is related to the lack of salt in mountainous areas.

A country that cannot live without wine

Miao people are addicted to alcohol. Almost every household used to make wine. There are many kinds of shochu, sweet wine and sparkling wine, among which shochu is the most common. On holidays, entertaining guests, wine is a must for Miao family. The custom of "blocking wine" in southeastern Guizhou is even more unique. Guests entering the Miao village must drink the croissant of Miao compatriots at the gate of the stockade before entering the stockade. "Road blocking wine" is a way for Miao people to show hospitality.

Dietary taboos of Miao nationality

Miao people are taboo to be called "Meng" by other nationalities, but prefer to call themselves "Meng". After the first spring thunder, Miao people in Qiandongnan Prefecture and other areas could not go out to work for three days.

On the first and fifteenth day of each month in the lunar calendar, Miao people in western Hunan are forbidden to pick dung.

Miao people don't like mutton, and it is forbidden to eat dog meat, and it is forbidden to kill or beat dogs. In Miao nationality, you can't eat Ciba after filming. When playing with Miao people, you can't tie them with ropes or cloth belts. When Miao people hang straw hats or insert green leaves at the door, or when Miao people hold weddings and funerals, guests are not allowed to enter. When you meet a newly married couple on the road, you can't cross it.

Cultural characteristics of Miao diet

Miao people's dietary customs have their own characteristics. The Miao people in Rongshui, Southeast Guizhou, Xiangxi and Guangxi of Hainan Island take rice as their staple food, as well as corn, sweet potato, millet and other miscellaneous grains. Miao people in northwest Guizhou, south Sichuan and northeast Yunnan live on corn, potatoes, buckwheat and oats. There are many kinds of non-staple food, besides collecting wild vegetables and engaging in fishing and hunting, there are also livestock, poultry, fish, beans, vegetables, fruits and so on. Hot and sour taste is an indispensable thing in Miao life. In the past, due to the lack of salt in mountainous areas, many Miao people lived on light food all the year round and could only use hot and sour seasoning. Over time, they formed a habit.

Miao people especially like to eat sour food. Almost every household cooks sour soup, sauerkraut and hot and sour fish. The fish in Miao sour soup is tender and delicious, and it is famous far and near. Miao people like to drink. After work at ordinary times, drink a little wine to relax muscles, promote blood circulation and eliminate fatigue; When relatives and friends visit, on holidays, weddings, funerals and weddings, they all treat them with wine. For a long time, they have formed a set of traditional drinking customs and etiquette. In many places, Miao people have the custom of singing wine songs while feasting and toasting. Camellia oleifera is also deeply loved by Miao people in the border areas of Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou. It is not only a necessary food for Miao people to entertain guests, but also a special drink before and after meals. Some places even eat it with camellia oleifera. In western Hunan, northeastern Guizhou and southern Chongqing, fried rice tea is used as a high-grade beverage for drinking and entertaining relatives and friends during the Spring Festival.

sour soup

Sour soup is rice soup or tofu water, fermented in a crock for 3-5 days, and then used to cook fish and vegetables. The food preservation of Miao people generally adopts pickling method, and vegetables, chickens, ducks and fish like to be pickled into sour taste. Almost every Miao family has a jar for curing food, which is collectively called a sour jar. Miao nationality has a long history of brewing, and has a set of techniques from koji making, fermentation, distillation, blending and cellar storage. Camellia oleifera is the most common daily drink. Miao people in Xiangxi also specially made a kind of scented tea. Sour soup is also a common drink. In some areas, Miao people surnamed Yang have taboos such as not eating pig hearts. Moreover, Miao people don't have too many dietary taboos and requirements. Typical foods of Miao people in China mainly include: blood soup, chili bone, turtle chicken soup in Miaoxiang, cotton vegetable cake, insect tea, scented tea, fish paste, fish in sour soup, etc.

polished glutinous rice

Glutinous rice is one of the staple foods of Miao people and plays an important role in their lives. It is a favorite food for men, women and children. People think that glutinous rice is not hungry or tasteless, and can be eaten without food or chopsticks. It is very convenient to eat it with your hands. Gifts for visiting relatives and friends and staple foods for various festivals (Sister's Day) are mostly various foods made of glutinous rice. There are colorful steamed glutinous rice, colorful colored glutinous rice, pillow-shaped and triangular zongzi, glutinous rice cakes, wine makers, people who travel long distances or work in the mountains, and most of them are carried around in bamboo boxes.

Xiaoheiyao stew chicken

In Miao village, as long as there are distinguished guests at home, a delicious little black medicine chicken will be stewed for the guests to taste. This delicious food is not only unique in flavor and rich in nutrition, but also "clearing away lung heat and toxic materials, dispelling cold and relieving cough, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, promoting blood circulation and dredging channels", which has always been regarded by the Miao compatriots in Qiubei as a good hospitality and a nourishing medicine for serious illness and weakness. Black medicine, also known as grass triangle maple, is a perennial herb, which grows in cool and humid mountainous areas. Its roots, stems and leaves can be used as medicine, and Miao compatriots often use it to treat diseases such as kidney deficiency, low back pain and asthma. Stewed chicken not only has unique flavor, tender meat and fresh soup, but also has special effects of nourishing and treating diseases. Important food for Miao pregnant women after delivery.