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What ethnic customs do the insect eating customs of different ethnic minorities reflect?

as a traditional festival, the legend of Mulao eating insects tells us about the measures taken by Mulao to combat natural disasters. Of course, today the nation follows such a traditional habit, which lies in the affirmation and nostalgia for such a strategy at that time. Otherwise, the nation may die out. In fact, in addition to Mulao people having such habits, other ethnic minorities also have insect eating Festival. We have brought you the national traditional habits related to the insect eating festival of Bulang and Dai people. Welcome to watch.

Insect eating customs of other nationalities

Bulang insect eating Festival

Many ethnic minorities in Yunnan like to eat cicadas. Among them, the adult cicada eaten by Bulang Nationality is particularly interesting.

Catching cicadas is usually carried out by young girls after summer. Brown girls do not hunt cicadas by listening to their cries, but mostly after Huangcuo. The girls in the stockade often set foot on the mountain in groups. When they are in Tashi mountain, those cicadas who are tired of flying during the day fall on the ground or in the bushes, and their wings are wetted by dew. They can no longer fly. The girls can do it at their fingertips. After a certain quantity is picked. Go home and scald the cicada with boiling water, remove its wings, steam it in a small cage drawer, mash it, and make cicada sauce the same as the shrimp sauce eaten by coastal fishermen. Often eat cicada sauce.

It is said that eating cicadas has the medical effects of clearing away heat and toxin, removing pain and swelling.

Dai's insect eating Festival

The Dai people in Yunnan should be the first to eat with a variety of insects. Dai people have many kinds of edible insects, a wide range, and a variety of eating methods. In addition to bee pupae and adult silkworms, they also eat sand pupae, flower spiders, acid ants, ant eggs and bamboo pupae in shashili by the river. Bamboo pupa, also known as weevil, is the pupa of a beetle growing in wild bamboo. It's white and about an inch long. Sometimes as many as dozens of bamboos can be taken in a section. The bamboo pupae were soaked in salt water. Bamboo pupae are fattest from September to October. Some Dai people often wrap the best bamboo pupae with eggs and fry them into yellow before drinking. It is characterized by being charred outside and tender inside. It is considered to be the best wine and dish.

Among the Dai people, the most characteristic of eating insects is the cold dish mixed with acid ants. It is said that it can relieve summer heat and appetizer. Acid ant is a kind of yellow ant growing on both banks of Nujiang River. Because there is a transparent acid storage small yellow ball under its abdomen, it is called acid ant. Acid ants nest on the branches and stems of a bean plant. The nest is made by connecting the plant leaves with the filaments vomited by ants, which is hanging on the plant branches in an inverted vertebral shape. The big ant nest is about a foot long. The acid ants were caught about after the beginning of summer. It's very simple to catch. As long as you find the ant's nest, you can cut it off along the root. Then seal the import and export of the ant with mastic, and you can catch the whole nest. When eating, shake the ant's nest frequently, so that the acid storage balls of the ants in the nest break and stick with each other. Then break the nest into the plate, add salt and pepper, and you can eat it.

It is hot and sour when eaten. It is often eaten. It has the effect of treating malaria and killing insects. Therefore, there are often hawkers selling whole nests of acid ants in the market. In addition to eating sour ants, Dai people also like to eat ant eggs. Ant seeds are used as sauce in the court of the Zhou Dynasty. When taking ant eggs, they first drive them away, then wash and dry them, and fry them together with eggs. Their taste is more delicious than using eggs completely. Of course, there are also people who directly use sour raw ant eggs to make cold dishes. Dai people generally like ants, which may be related to their acidophilic taste.

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