In the golden autumn season, in the Miao Township Dong Village in Congjiang County, Guizhou, the mountains and fields are filled with the fragrance of rice from Xianghe glutinous rice. When the Xianghe glutinous rice is mature, the hardworking and wise people will tie a spike of glutinous rice into handfuls and select glutinous rice with slightly green husks to make traditional delicacies - "flat rice".
flat rice, many people don’t know yet, right? Today, the editor will tell you that the flat rice made in the past was a food production activity for young men and women to invite each other to celebrate the harvest. It reflects the simple, hardworking, and optimistic attitude towards life of the children of Dong Village, Congjiang Miao Township, and is also the pursuit and yearning for a better life. The process of making flat rice starts with the use of seven-year-old glutinous rice. After the rice ears are threshed, cleaned and removed, steamed (boiled), fried and dried, dried at room temperature, pounded rice with mortar, and removed bran by dustpan, the fragrant flat rice will come out.
Flat rice made with emerald green color, soft and crisp taste, soft and sweet in the mouth, full of fragrance. The production of rice-flavored flat rice carries the lifestyles and memories of the people of Congjiang for generations, and also inherits the folk customs and feelings of the land and land.
However, what you don’t know is that the flat rice must be made by the girl himself, but it is not the glutinous rice of the girl’s house, but she invited her partner to pick it from the rice fields of the young man she loved. If a young man knows which girl likes her, he usually asks to make an appointment with a few good friends, bring charcoal , and then add some meter wine to taste and enjoy the flat rice with love. The way to eat flat rice is to chew it. The more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes, and it makes people feel endless aftertaste.
Xianghe Nuo is a national geographical indication protection product of Congjiang County . It is planted in alpine terraces with an altitude of 350-750 meters. From cultivation to harvest, it takes up to 180 days of natural growth. In this season of the year, the yield is rare and precious. The Dong village in Miaoxiang still retains the life tradition of "rice, rice, fish soup". The farming model of coexistence of rice, fish and ducks forms a mutually beneficial and symbiotic ecosystem in the small rice fields, so there is no need to inject pesticides or apply fertilizers. Xianghe glutinous rice has the characteristics of soft taste and not greasy food. It enjoys the reputation of "one acre of rice and ten miles of fragrance, one steamed rice and ten families with fragrant smell". Whenever the fragrant wheat harvest is good, the local Dong ethnic group people will celebrate
through activities such as helping each other to break the wheat, burning fish, blowing Lusheng , singing Dong song and other activities to celebrate
Picture provided by: Liu Hualin
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