Tay people occupy large numbers, widely distributed throughout the country and live in most upland areas. They have a long tradition of tradition, written in their own words and have better economic conditions than other peoples. Cultural characteristics of the Tay are not only manifested in the village, the singing verses, waltz, singing but also in the culinary culture. And sticky rice is a distinctive product of them.The special point of this sticky rice is the unique color. The sticky rice steamed glutinous rice is glutinous rice with gold flowers. Beautiful and attractive natural color, the five main colors of the sticky rice are white, red, blue, purple, yellow. White is the raw color of the rice, the remaining colors are made by soaking the rice with water of the leaves and bulbs. These leaves and bulbs are easy to find in the forest, or in the garden.For the red, purple, relatives get the leaves "red stingray" (red leaf), pounded with boiled water and then take water to soak rice. After 5-6 hours, remove the rice to the mat, rice sticky rice will be very bright red or purple.Next, sticky rice is yellow thanks to turmeric. The Tay took 2-3 fresh turmeric grinded on the palm branches to smooth and then mix well with soaked rice thoroughly cooked. Sticky rice is often used in newborns because women think that women who have just given birth, eat sticky rice will be healthy and avoid postpartum.Finally, ginger leaves are the ingredient to make the blue sticky. Ladies, you just take a handful of fresh ginger leaves, pounding small juice extract. When the noodles are nearly ripe, they give the ginger leaf juice to mix well, cover up the next pack and about half an hour later, ripe ripe green, fragrant ginger smell, sticky smell very delicious.
On holidays, Tet, Tay ethnic minorities usually make sticky rice in five colors to make the tray more attractive. In order to have delicious sticky sticky rice, people have to choose sticky rice, fragrant rice. The color of the sticky rice depends on the coloring material.
five colors sticky rice are the mother, the sister presents a plate of sticky rice in five colors: white, blue, yellow, red, purple looks like a flower blooming five-pointed flowers. It has a characteristic aroma of plants, not to be confused with any other type of sticky rice. Bean sticky ball is beautiful but not wet, when cooled the beans sticky but still soft, flexible and fragrant.
Ancient people, color stickers for the five elements: White is the color of the needle, blue is the color of the wood, black is the color of the water, red is the color of fire, yellow is the color of the earth. It is conceived that the existence of these five substances makes the goodness of Heaven and Earth.
For Tay people, who eat sticky rice in the holidays, Tet, they will meet many good luck.
color Sticky rice is the pride of Tay women because it shows their ingenuity. Processed in five colors of natural ingredients should eat very tasty and nutritious.
