the occasion of the Day "Wu Tuan", the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, members of the association Te Vahine Porinetia have made rice cakes.
In China in ancient times, when the schedule addressed the 5th month, the summer had already begun. In that time, it was difficult to escape the heat and all diseases which result, due mainly to lack of hygiene. And we called the 5th month, the month of calamities and diseases. The 5th day was particularly deadly. So the populations they spent the day collecting various herbs in the mountains. the houses were thoroughly cleaned. Plants exposed to the interior of houses, used for baths or for infusions, as fragrance in sachets, to purify themselves and allowed to hunt all these diseases.
In the region of Fu Kien, we took that day (there at noon sharp, an infusion comprising 99 different young leaves (honeysuckle, peach leaf, leaf cherry, ...). To all this we added green tea. The legend says that this infusion allowed to escape from 100 diseases.
This day is particularly harmful, children born today are killed. The famous legend of Men Shang Kuin contradicts this custom. Men Chang Chun was the fourth son of a king, born a fifth day of the 5th lunar month. According to the tradtion, the child would have had to be put to death. But his mother, and love can not bring himself to kill him, confided to one of his servants and asked him to raise it. This child grew and became a mandarin (or Lord). He received every day and every meal 3000 guests. One day he ordered one of them to collect debts and taxes from his subjects.
latter began the task. But instead of collecting the money, he addressed the people telling him that the Lord made a clean sweep of all claims of his subjects. He then burned all the recognitions and the crowd was jubilant at this news. On his return from Men Shang Chun, it asked him to account. He answered the Lord: "I did not report the money you expected but I bought you love the people and the next."
The rice cake tradition coincides with the history of the poet, scholar Chu Yuan. The origin of this festival dates back to the Warring States (403-222 BC). King's Counsel, Chu Yuan was frowned upon by the ministers in power and was exiled and wrote patriotic poems. Driven by desperation and wanting to protest against a regime he considered decadent, he threw himself into the Mi Lo River in Hunan Province, the 5th day of 5th month.
People rushed to their frail craft, hoping to find the body of the poet who was known and loved by his countrymen. But they found him not. To chase away evil spirits, they built boats with a dragon on the bow. Each year, population participated diligently in this research. And for that fish do eat the body, they threw rice grains. One day, the spirit of Chu-Yuan appeared to people to tell them that he would also enjoy the gifts which they threw into the rivers. He advised them to wrap the rice in lotus leaves connected by colored strings (to prevent fish from eating it).
Thus were born the traditional "rice cake" is wrapped in leaves for "auti" in Tahiti (Tzoung).
In Hong Kong, this festival is celebrated every year with fervor. Dragon boats compete in a race that commemorates the memory of the poet Chu Yuan. That day, we taste the famous rice cakes savory or sweet.
Since 1939, the 5th day of 5th month is the day of the poets to commemorate the work of Chu Yuan.
Each year, nearly 27 years, the fifth day of the 5th lunar month, the association "Te Vahine Porinetia" meets all residents of Mamao for tasting rice cakes prepared by its members.
For gâtaeux salted rice :
1 package of 2 kg Mi Lo
1 tablespoon salt
1 / 2 bottle of peanut oil
2 packets of Mi Teon 450 g (Bean Black Eye)
1 tablespoon salt
1 / 2 teaspoon ginger powder (His Kian)
A little leaf green onion
1 kg boneless pork belly
1 1 / 2 tbsp salt 1 tbsp
alcohol rose
1 tablespoon
taste 1 / 2 teaspoon ginger powder (His Kian)
1 pack of 450 g dried prawn (optional)
sheets "Auti" green freeze to blanch.
the eve of the preparation, crushing the beans and soak in Mi Teon water. Remove impurities and skin of beans.
In another bowl, soak rice in water.
Soak dried prawn in water.
the day of making rice cakes, remove the rice water. Season with salt and oil. Mix well.
In another bowl, season beans with salt, ground ginger and green onion leaves. Bienmélanger.
Cut the bacon strip in half an inch and then marinate with salt, alcohol rose, the taste and powdered ginger.
Chop shrimp and mix with dried beans Mi Teon.
Take sheets "Auti" posing a layer of rice, a layer of beans, a piece of pork, a layer of beans, a layer of rice, close and tie tightly with string.
For sweet rice cakes :
1 pack Mi Lo
1 / 2 glass Lye Water
A handful of guava leaves
2 glasses of water
Cook the leaves of guava with glasses of water jsuqu'à have a tea stain.
Put in a bowl and add the rice and lye water.
The day's clothing, a tip with 2 half-sheet, fill with rice and put a stick.
Close and tie with string.
Cook rice cakes and savory in two different pots, for 8 hours.
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