Raw food is the bait for Taoist fasting day. Du Fu's poem "To Li Bai" says: Without polished rice, my color is good. I think the most difficult thing is the lack of elixir. In this deep forest, it seems to be swept with a broom, and there is not even a trace of medicine. (Hippocampus comment: This sentence seems to be suspected of homosexuality) Pi Rixiu's "Nanyang Wenguang wants to live in Jingxiang, so he has literary talent": "Cooked rice invades the kitchen, and white snow splashes the window." Lu Guimeng said in the poem "Book of Taoist Room": "Black rice is new and delicious, and Taoist people are used to fasting." Zhang Ben's "It is necessary to attack Wang Lu with green food and fast food": "Who cares about Qiong Yao's fast food? Old famous products are spread in Huayang. It should be suitable for Xianma, because Liu Lang and Ruanlang are sent. " -publishing house, "green fast food" is another name for green rice. Say "fast" because black rice is cooked and processed quickly.
Since the Song Dynasty, Buddhists began to regard vegetarian meal as a vegetarian food. Especially on the Buddha washing festival on April 8, Buddhists often make black rice to offer to the Buddha, which is also called Amimi for this reason. Ge's poem "Black Rice in Mongolian on April 8th" in the Song Dynasty depicts the scene of eating polished rice at that time in the Buddha Bathing Festival: "On a hot day, I tasted April 8th, grinding incense and pouring Buddha into Joan Hinton. Cheng Gong suddenly made a plain meal, but his son was shocked to see Huanxi Maru. " Another cloud said, "If you order lacquered rice, you have to be clean and provide for it. Turn the spoon upside down, and you won't be worthy of the cold sheep. I only like the taste of the law, but I still want to see the projectile in the poem. " Fan Zhiming of the Song Dynasty said in Yueyang Local Records: "On April 8, Yuezhou ate Erythrina leaves as food and took gods and ancestors as a mirror." In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen said in Volume 25 (Valley 4) of Compendium of Materia Medica: This meal is a way for immortals to eat, but now Buddhists make it beyond April 8 to offer sacrifices to the Buddha. In addition, Song people also eat rice on Shangsi Festival (March 3rd). According to Liang Kejia's Records of Three Mountains in Xichun in the Song Dynasty, the green rice eaten at Shangsijie said: "The southern candlewood is evergreen in winter and summer. Taking its leaves, mashing them, dipping them in rice and dyeing them blue can prolong life ... Today, green rice is green ... and the folk customs are effective." (Haima Note: Three Mountains are Fuzhou, followed by Fujian She nationality black rice). In the Yuan Dynasty, vegetarian meals were first seen in poetry at the Cold Food Festival. Lu Cheng's "Three Books on Cold Food" said: "Adding vegetables is not greasy with vegetarian rice, and there is no white sheep if it is not cooked well." Dai's "Cold Food": "Cold food is clear, but the scenery in my hometown is still there. Poor customers are divided into green rice, and whoever hangs white money on the grave after the chaos. " After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, green rice has also become a seasonal food in many southern regions. For example, the five-color rice eaten in Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty was also derived from green rice. Li's Notes on South Vietnam in the Qing Dynasty said: "Today's people pay polished rice every time they take a club day." -It is reported that the Youth League eaten in Tomb-Sweeping Day today was thought by Lang Ying in Ming Dynasty to have evolved from green rice. His "Seven Manuscripts", Volume 43, said: "The ancients sacrificed m blue on tung and poplar leaves as a cold food, and Ziyang was angry. Now it has become a green and white jiaozi. "
Lin Hong's "Shanjia Qinggong" points out the difference of recipes between "black rice" eaten by folk and "bluestone rice" eaten by immortals. The former is to steam the best japonica rice with the juice of the branches and leaves of Nanzhuang, dry it and collect it, and cook it with hot water when eating. In the latter, bluestone fat and green sorghum rice are soaked in water and pounded into pills. When eating, people now take Chinese medicine pills and take them with white water to ward off the valley. "Green food and instant rice" in Fang Yizhi's Tongya-Diet in the Ming Dynasty: "Green food and instant rice, black rice also. Today's Buddhists wrote it on April 8, either with butter or maple. " Black rice is usually eaten around the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, that is, long summer. Choose this particular solar term and there is a new folk custom. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin, the descendant of soldier Sun Wu, went into the mountains with Pang Juan, the general of Wei State, and learned the art of war from Guiguzi. Guiguzi taught the essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War to the modest and studious Sun Bin. Pang Juan was jealous of talents, designed to deceive Sun Bin, cut off his kneecap, locked Sun Bin in the stable, and forced him to hand over Sun Tzu's Art of War by starvation. The kind jailer was very sympathetic to Sun Bin's misfortune. He cheated Pang Juan's men, took local materials, pounded glutinous rice with Vaccinium bracteatum leaves, cooked it, kneaded it into small dumplings and secretly gave it to Sun Bin. Because its shape and color are similar to horse manure, Pang Juan never found the secret. Later, Sun Bin got revenge after being rescued.
She people in Fujian and southern Zhejiang also eat black rice. They eat it on March 3rd. There are different legends about the black rice of the She nationality: First, "March 3rd" is the birthday of Migu, and if she people want to dress Migu, they should paint it with a layer of color to celebrate the bumper year. Secondly, insects and ants don't work on March 3, and she people eat black rice, so they are not afraid of insects and ants when going up and down the mountain. Thirdly, when Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She nationality in the Tang Dynasty, led the She nationality to fight against enemy soldiers, the enemy often came to grab rice. Lei Wanxing ordered the She people to dye the rice black with black barnyard grass juice. The enemy was afraid of poisoning, so the She people sent the rice safely up the mountain. On March 3 of the following year, the insurgents broke through rationally and won a great victory. Later, in order to commemorate the victory, on March 3 every year, both men and women go out for an outing, collect black barnyard grass leaves, and cook black rice in every household. This is a long process.
The eighth day of the fourth lunar month in Suining county, Hunan province is the "April 8" daughter's day of the Miao nationality. According to legend, Yang, a descendant of the Song Dynasty, was captured by the enemy in a battle and imprisoned in Liuzhou, Guangxi. His younger sister Yang Jinhua and his younger brother delivered meals, but they were all eaten up by gaotou prison guards. In order to satisfy his younger brother, Yang Jinhua went up the mountain to taste a hundred herbs veneer, picked black rice leaves for juice, dyed a bucket of two liters of glutinous rice black and steamed it, and gave it to his younger brother on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. The jailer dared not eat black rice when he saw it. After eating black rice, Yang broke through the cage and rushed out of the predicament, but he died in the rescue. To commemorate, Yang Jiate designated the eighth day of the fourth lunar month as "Daughter's Day". Before the festival, families were busy picking black leaves to make black rice, killing chickens and ducks, and taking married girls back to their families for the New Year. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation.