People from Hongjiang makes preparations for Spring Festival

2022-01-18 12:05:14 english.rednet.cn
作者:梁孝亮 杨振铎 杨昆松 阮梓峰 编辑:马丽红
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As Spring Festival approaches, many families from Hongjiang start to make preparations for the new year feast. Many friends and relatives gather at home of Xiao’s family, and plan to slaughter a pig and make rice cakes. These activities are celebrations of the past year, and express a wish for prosperity in next year.

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Rice cake is a must-have in the dinner table of Hongjian people during new year. Sticky rice needs to be putted into water first, and later a bamboo steamer for twenty minutes. Cooked rice will be putted into a stone trough, and it has to be smashed by a wooden tool. Pounding will turn it into a paste and increase its tenacity. Later, one needs to knead it into smaller pastes and put them on a table rubbed with oil. After pastes are pressed by a wooden board, rice cakes are made. In an addition, the locals has added Pseudognaphalium affine to rice cake, which is a species of daisy plant belonging to the genus Pseudognaphalium. This plant has been used traditionally in Traditional Chinese medicine and gives rice cakes a unique flavor. Baked rice cakes are crispy on surface and soft inside. One can dip them in sugar or fermented bean curd. Certainly, it is the taste of home.

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Slaughtering pig marks this special day. Usually, couple people have to work together in order to successfully slaughter a pig. Farmers can make cured meat, sausages and many other foods to preserve pork. Also, on this day Xiao’s family has made a pork feast to serve villagers. It is a form of social act connecting each other.

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