Why the Tujia make mochi

The Tujia people have a popular custom of "playing mochi" on New Year's Day. The Tujia people have always had "twenty-eight, hit the poop" saying. Whenever the Chinese New Year comes, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, families have to play sticky rice patties, the so-called play sticky rice patties, according to the local local chronicles: "Department of glutinous rice on the stone groove mortar and pestle such as mud, pressed into the shape of a ball, shaped like a full moon. The big one is about 5 feet in diameter, the unusual one is about 4 inches, ranging from 3 to 8 minutes thick." Playing sticky rice patties is a labor-intensive physical work, usually after the men to play, two people stand against each other, first kneading and then playing, even if the snow and ice days also have to sweat. Do poop is also very delicate, hand-sticky bee wax or tea oil, first out of the steelyard weight, after the hand or board pressure, to do a jade round and smooth, beautiful.