The materials used in Oujiu porridge are sweet and warm, invigorating spleen and qi, and keeping out the cold, so it has the effect of prolonging life when eaten in the cold first month.
This porridge is sticky, waxy, soft, sweet and delicious, nutritious and easy to digest, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, moistening intestines, invigorating qi and calming nerves, clearing away heart fire and nourishing blood. It can be used as a delicious food for daily nutrition and diet regulation, especially suitable for the elderly and the weak or the weak spleen and stomach after illness.
The wine cooking festival (the 29th day of the first lunar month) is a unique traditional folk festival in Fuzhou. Aojiu Festival is also called Houjiu Festival, Filial Piety Festival and Sending the Poor Festival. Early this morning, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnut, sesame seeds, longan and other raw materials to cook sweet porridge, which is called "lotus root wine porridge" to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. Married daughters must also send a bowl of "lying nine porridge" back to their parents' home to honor their parents.
It is said that there was a man named Mulian in ancient times. His mother was fierce before her death and was imprisoned in the underworld after her death. When he visited the prison, he often sent food to his mother, but all the food was eaten by the guards' children. Later, he thought of a way to mix water chestnut, peanuts, red dates, longan, brown sugar and other raw materials with glutinous rice, cook it into sweet porridge, put it in a bowl, and sprinkle a handful of black sesame seeds to his mother.
Seeing that the porridge was dark, the jailer asked, "What is this?" Manglietia casually replied, "Dirty." (The word "nine" is homophonic with "dirty" in Fuzhou dialect) The doorman believes it is true and thinks it is dirty, so he dare not eat it. So, "Europe Jiuzhou" was delivered to Manglietia's mother.
It happened to be the 29th day of the first month, and Manglietia's mother just turned 29 this year. According to folk custom, the first month is divided into Sanjiu, the ninth day of the first month is called Shangjiu, the 19th day is called Zhongjiu and the 29th day is called Houjiu porridge, so this kind of porridge is called Houjiu porridge.
Besides, do people who have reached the age of nine, such as nine, nineteen and twenty-nine (commonly known as "Ming Jiu" or "Zheng Jiu"), or multiples of nine, such as eighteen, twenty-seven and thirty-six (commonly known as "Dark Jiu"), eat a bowl of peace as their birthday? For safety and health.
The practice of nine porridge:
Soak glutinous rice for 30 minutes, and soak lotus seeds and peanuts in clear water 1 hour. There should be no "heart" in the middle of lotus seeds, so the porridge cooked will not have bitterness. Remove the skin from the peanuts after soaking, so that the porridge will not have astringency. ?
Cooking: Pick up the soaked glutinous rice by hand, wash it again, put it in a small steamer, steam it on high fire for 10 minute, add appropriate amount of water, put the prepared red dates, raisins, dried longan, lotus seeds, peanuts and water chestnut together, stir it evenly with a rice spoon, and cook it on high fire for five minutes.
Add sugar. When sticky glutinous rice begins to appear, add a certain amount of brown sugar (the amount of brown sugar varies from person to person). At this time, simmer for 3 minutes (sticky glutinous rice is easy to paste when the fire is too big).
After the brown sugar is completely dissolved in the glutinous rice, gently stir with a rice spoon until the color of the glutinous rice turns red, and then turn off the heat.