Taiji rice(tai ji fan )

Taiji rice

Introduction:

"The legend of black rice: Mulian's mother suffered in the hungry ghost road of the 18th floor hell. After her practice, Mulian went to hell to visit her mother, but every time she prepared the food, she was robbed by the hungry ghost prison guards along the way. In order to satisfy her starving mother, Mulian often wanders in the mountains. One day (it was the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar), Mu Lian was in a state of helplessness and irritability. She casually picked the leaves from the nearby dwarf trees on the mountain and put them into her mouth to chew. She found that the leaves were fragrant and delicious, and the juice was black. Mu Lian thought that if the rice was soaked in this leaf juice and cooked black rice was sent to her mother, she would not be robbed by prison guards. So Mulian took the leaves home and smashed them, soaked the rice with leaf juice, cooked them into black, and then sent them to her mother. Sure enough, the prison guards were no longer fighting, but Mulian's mother finally had enough to eat. Mu Lian finally saved her mother from the ghost of starvation. In order to praise Mu Lian's filial piety, every family in Yixing eats black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, and it has been handed down to this day. The southern candle leaves (commonly known as "wufancao" in Yixing) are mainly grown in the hilly area of Southern Yixing. The rice used to make WuFan is mainly glutinous rice, mixed with some japonica rice, which is especially fragrant and delicious after cooking. The custom of eating black rice in Yixing has a long history and is handed down from generation to generation. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a pharmacist, wrote in compendium of materia medica: "to take the leaves of Nanzhu, mash them, soak them in water to extract juice, cook japonica rice or glutinous rice to make a black rice. If you take them for a long time, you can lighten your body and improve your eyesight, keep your black hair on your face, replenish your vitality and prolong your life." "Yixing county annals" also records: "on the eighth day of April, I ate WuFan, which is called" WuFan offering " It's also said that Mulian cooked "black rice" with the leaves of Qingjing tree (a southern candle) soaked in glutinous rice to hide the ghost and save his mother. This custom has been passed down to this day. " Yixing WuFan is not only a local characteristic food, but also a unique folk culture created by Yixing folk. It has distinctive local characteristics and has a great influence around Yixing. This product has the effects of tonifying spleen and kidney, relieving cough, calming nerves, brightening eyes, and black hair, etc. it is suitable for the weak people to take "tonic" diet

Production steps:

Materials required:

Rice: right amount

Wumi: right amount

Boiled water: appropriate amount

matters needing attention:

Production difficulty: simple

Process: steaming

Production time: three quarters of an hour

Taste: sweet

Chinese PinYin : Tai Ji Fan