How does Maoming Gaozhou Huang Ai do?

Maoming Gaozhou Huang Ai Spring Festival holiday is over, and it is not far from the end of the month. The last day of the first lunar month is also called "Authentic Festival", which means the end of the first lunar month. In Gaozhou's hometown, "Authentic Festival" has another meaning, because local "authentic" and "steaming" are homophonic, and "authentic" means "steaming poverty", that is, bringing poor patients from into thin air. Therefore, there is a folk song: "The first month is poor, step on wormwood", which means to be wormwood. On this day, every household in rural areas drinks mugwort tea, inserts mugwort flowers and eats mugwort. Before that, children should use their holidays to pick wormwood in potato fields and winter fallow fields, take it home, wash it, dry it and reserve it. I started making mugwort on the day of "Poverty Festival". Step 1: Boil a proper amount of boiling water in the pot, add brown sugar and cook together (more sugar can be added for dessert according to family preferences), then pour a small amount of glutinous rice flour into boiling water, stir it with a shovel until it is cooked, and then shovel it out and put it into the prepared powder pile; Step 2: Rub the wormwood into velvet, put it in a pot, cook it and rub it dry. Add wormwood into the cooked rice paste in step 1 and knead it evenly, and then knead it into glutinous rice flour to form a dough (until the dough has no cracks). Then separate small pink balls larger than table tennis balls, knead the small pink balls into round slices and wrap them with pre-fried stuffing. Step 3: Make stuffing. Hometown people like sweet stuffing and salty stuffing when making mugwort. Generally, there are many sweet fillings, which means that the New Year is sweet and life is sweeter than honey. Salty stuffing is generally fried with mung beans, peanuts, lean meat, shrimps and sesame seeds; The sweet stuffing is shredded coconut or pickled crispy papaya, with fried peanuts and sesame seeds, the taste is absolutely first-class. Step 4: print. Huang Ai should also be printed with patterns. That is, put the wrapped Folium Artemisiae Argyi embryo into a wood carving "Shoutao" shape or square seal (the seal is carved into Shoutao shape with the word "Shou" engraved in the middle) and chrome plated, then put it into a steamer with banana leaves or pineapple leaves, take it out after steaming, and mark a red dot in the middle of the seal to show good luck. People like it very much because it is good for health and eliminates dust and accumulation. When the editor-in-chief was very young, he heard grandma tell such an interesting legend vividly. It is said that in the past, on the day of "poverty", people closed their doors. Because at that time, a monster with bare chest, dirty face, messy hair and purple eyes appeared out of nowhere, called "poor ghost" On this day, he will go door to door, either begging for money or begging. He is an insatiable man, and the amount of things he takes is quite amazing. If he doesn't get what he wants, or offends him, he will make a scene in front of your house, even haunt you and make you fidgety. In this way, you will be depressed in the next year; Those with fertile land will be confiscated all the year round; Businessmen's wealth was closed and their old capital was eroded. For those who are too poor to open the pot, you should also separate your wife and children and leave your hometown. No wonder there was a saying at that time: "poor wretch" entered the house, either asking for money or food. In short, "poor guy" is a bad guy that everyone hates. He came and went without a trace. Some people say that he is a "disaster star" from the sky and dare not provoke him. He is at a loss. Later, the villagers invited a Taoist priest from Longshanzhai to try to conquer the "poor ghost". But the new arrival is actually a chef who cooks for Taoist priests in the stockade. As for magic, they have only a little knowledge. Not to mention the ability to catch ghosts. This so-called Taoist knows that martial arts is not home yet, and this monster is a tough guy, but he feels sorry for the villagers for not conquering this monster. One night, he thought hard and fell asleep unconsciously at his desk. In his dream, it suddenly dawned on him that Master had taught him how to drive away plague monsters with wormwood. Early the next morning, the Taoist priest led people to pick "wormwood" in the field. After picking wormwood back, they dried the branches as burning materials, washed the leaves and buds, chopped them into paste, then poured them into rice flour, cooked them thoroughly in a pot, fished them out to dry for a while, and then steamed them in a steamer, which became the original wormwood. About the time of "poverty", the Taoist burned the branches of wormwood in front of the pile and put them in front of the door. This "poor wretch" will stop making trouble when he is full. This method has spread all over the country, and every household has followed suit. Sure enough, this custom has been passed down from generation to generation. At the end of each year, every household makes mugs to conquer the "poor" in this way. I think, legend is legend after all. It is not credible that there are ghosts in the world. This is just a legendary story, and people will cast a mysterious color on wormwood. What people want to conquer is the "poor ghost" among the evil forces. How dare the "poor devil" patronize the hard work of picking wormwood and making wormwood leaves? In fact, any kind of folk food has been recognized by people and passed down from generation to generation, which shows the wisdom and exploration spirit of working people. Now you don't have to wait until the first month to eat mugwort leaves. You can go to any hotel in Maoming if you want. Usually, the vegetable market has special stalls all year round, so it is very convenient to buy as many as you want. Usually, the official reception of the unit or the private reception of relatives and friends from other places also likes to order this special food-Huang Ai lets the guests taste it, which not only reflects the local characteristics, but also has a therapeutic effect. With the improvement of people's living standards and the abundance of food, people become lazy.