"South candle" and food "black rice" custom (one)

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        Black rice food custom and body-keeping for shousands of Taoism

        Black rice original called green fine meal, it appears, and Taoist take food for immortal practice are concerned, LiShiZhen "compendium of materia medica · valley department" volume 25:24 said: "this rice is fairy home take food method, and the interpretation of home more than April 8 made, for Buddha ear. Make person and into the persimmon leaf, BaiYangYe dozens of branch to help color, or added to iron a person, check know take its coloring, don't know to take feed is the house avoid also." Taoist classics "three hole bead capsule" said: "WangBao, the word's son, han emperor's tomb vii sun, suit green fine meal, to step this peak such as birds." WangBao is the western han dynasty XuanDi contemporaries, said han dynasty has been to take feed green fine meal, evidence is not sufficient. Southern dynasties beam tao hongjing... the true again records · god pivot four ":" in WangXuanFu huoshan DengBoYuan by suit green fine stone rice swallow day Dan view of law." About during the northern and southern dynasties, taoists began to take food. In the tang and song dynasties, take food green fine rice the person many, du fu "give li bai" : "have no green fine meal, make me color good." Green fine rice also called "green JingDao", tang to yuan "and lotte give u thant," : "" HuangTingJing", a green food JingDao." Zhang Ben "to green rice distribute incoming beauty lu hope for into a special skill" : "who scrap qiong precious jade green, old things the famous brand out huayang." PiRiXiu "jiangnan way of maoshan with wide wen nanyang doctor" : "semidiurnal initial zhai green rice, shift time print sandalwood incense." LiuGuiMeng "April 15th way room book things hit send beauty" cloud: "black rice for cooking Mao new Huo sweet, Taoist feast day think often." Song huang tingjian the hui and ChenRongXu the word rhyme push award a real not what I dare to next to the rhyme of # 3: "MengQing meal hunger, cold, with purple Tuo." Song lu you "longevity view a rice has carries out" : "Taoist green fine rice, Mr. Black Angle towel." XieWuLiang "west lake brigade xing bosom" brother fifty rhyme ":" ye temple green fine meal, runescape game of shuttlecocks money."

        According to the existing ancient book, the liang dynasty tao hongjing... the first mention of its practice, he has the climb is implicit tactic, "a book, introduction, called" green fine qiankun stone rice "make the law:

        Born in a white rice duhu five bucket churn cure, xi resembles duhu take a second bucket. With the south candle MuYe 5 jins, dry person three jin yi ke, miscellaneous bark cook take juice, extremely make chilly, in order to Sou rice, rice release of for cooking. From April to late August, with new leaves, the color is deep, September to march, with lodge leaf, the color is shallow, may at any time in its weight. And adopt soft branches bark, in stone mortar of comminution. False make SiWuYue as, usable ten xu jin ripe churn to duhu two bucket soup disseminated, a well-known also. With only a board with particular two lodge, need not use soup. Lu and drink, initial m is for green, steamed over will be like GanSe. Its color is bad, can clean out to, more new juice of stains. Sprinkle 瀖 person with the juice, but make rice as is blue is stop. Gog exposure dry, when three steamed exposure, each to dry with green juice Sou, make Yi Yi. Daily can take two litres, not complex blood food. Fill the stomach, tonifying marrow, exterminate three bug.

        "Compendium of materia medica · valley department" lead "on the wing" :

        Child clothing the king of vegetation, gas and theurgy; Children eat green candle of tianjin, life no longer so young. This is called the also. This maoshan Taoist also make this meal, or in order to send far. Heavy steamed overfeeding, very sweet Kennedy also.

        Taoist not only produce the keeping in good health for the green fine meal, also specially for this rice up a name - "green fine dry stone rice", especially made a "" word, in order to show its special. Song SuSong said: "whoever inside and outside the book and without this word, but in the name of joash the rice ear." The original "green fine rice" composition, including "dry stone", what is "dry stone"? Is about stone fat and things like that.

        Taoist otherwise "green fine stone rice", it is to use bluestone fat and m flooding dao for shot, with boiled water swallow, according to persuade two pill people neither hunger, is the Taoist practice used BiGu reader, spread widely.

        In the inheritance process, people abandoned stone fat, but only with the plant juice boil rice production green fine rice. After the tang and song dynasties green fine meal, generally refers to the rice. Green fine rice "green fine" two words very worth pondering. In ancient times of five line system, green is the color of the east, and corresponding spring, spring is rising sun be the spirit, all things long breeding, booming season, Taoist and making green fine meal, cover from blue long have meaning, "essence of life", said essence, "green fine" but take qingyang essence meaning. Tao hongjing... emphasize "but make rice as is blue is check" can be established for the card. This rice original not black, but is a deep blue, folk created green fine meal, also often take blue, such as song RuanYue "notes on poets and poetry total turtle · of content door" : YangTong, leaf fine Holly, the living water YouMao, in meet another name, mining dyed rice leaves, the color green and light, great food gas, is known as the YangTong rice. Taoist so-called "green food".

        Another LinHong song in the mountain home subject "volume in also said: according to the compendium of materia medica" : "south candle wood, this name black rice grass, also known as eclipta alba." Namely green fine too, mining branches and leaves incompletely juice, immersion white good japonica rice, whether how much, wait a 2 PM, steamed rice exposure dry, strong and green color, control store.

        Green fine rice color, RuanYue said "color green", and LinHong make your own a green fine meal, also said that "green color". In the tang dynasty is called green fine rice as "black rice", probably because the rice color deep green, similar caused by black. Also may be false to "green" as the "black" caused by. The green - word, as the color word, also can make "black" solution. Green has this kind of usage, the minister · yugong ":" (LiangZhou) li jue soil green. Faint field but next." Don KongYingDa hydrophobic lead WangSu yue: "green, black." Later generations to green table black very common, such as li bai "will go to wine" : "have you noticed a hall with high ceiling mirror sad white hair, such as black hair at sunset into snow." "Black hair" namely explains refers to the black hair.

        Black rice food custom and Buddhism

        Eat black rice custom in the circulate process, for buddhist absorption, popular in the folk. Buddhist temple in sakyamuni birthday do April 8th of black rice, so black rice is also known as "o" rice ", and form a legend: the ancient times have filial son mesh company, its parent for crime and into the hell, eye even take meals to hell to mother, is often hell jailer eat, then use YangTongShu leaves make it black rice, the thought is unclean thing dare not eat, eye even mother ate black rice, is healthy. Mu lian behavior touched the emperor of heaven, so will release her mother, mother and child to reunite. April 8, eat black rice, accordingly. And a legend says, the western regions in budda birthday with black millet rice sacrifice. Chinese believers, rate phase imitate and become the common, but China use black rice instead of black millet rice, so there is the common.

        The old, April 8 "bath FoJie" this day, believers for the sake of the family soul, to give money temple, temple monk is prepared with black rice to donor issue. Also has the monks and nuns to folk issue black rice person. Later evolved into folk do monkshood meals or gift friends and relatives. Such as the law of the national customs record, talked about today anhui jingxian county "bath FoJie" say: "April 8, FuTu jingxian county, is a bath Buddha, is known as the bath FoJie. There are colored perfume, MinGu mining monkshood paulownia leaf dyeing rice, blue is light, yue black rice. With the phase KuiYi." Because black rice is often used in bath FoJie, so have again ", "rice" the name, the qing jia record ":" ShiSi boiled green fine rice for cake type, the people buy for Buddha, yue o "rice, also name umea cake." In some places, eat black rice has not limited to April 8, every temple fair is the average daily eat black rice, such as the jiangning government record ":" I township every temple, the time for sell, as a snack."