Thin rice is actually black rice grass. The main raw material of black rice is black rice grass. The official name is actually Southern Candle Leaf. Vaccinium bracteatum is just the common name of our Jiangnan area, and Yixing area is also called Vaccinium bracteatum. Yixing people call Vaccinium bracteatum a Vaccinium bracteatum.

The custom of black rice grass

Eating black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is a folk custom in Huangtian and Zhukou, Qingyuan. The method of black rice is to boil the leaves of a shrub called "black rice grass" in a pot, then mix its dark juice with glutinous rice, add lean meat and stir, and cook it thoroughly with slow fire to make black rice, which is fragrant and delicious and greatly increases people's appetite.