Mid -Autumn Festival osmanthus rice wine

Another year of golden wind, Mid -Autumn Festival is approaching. Now I am in a foreign country, but my heart always miss the bright moon in my hometown, and my mother's osmanthus rice wine.

In my hometown, every Mid -Autumn Festival, in addition to making moon cakes, every family also has the custom of brewing osmanthus rice wine. When I was a kid, I asked my mother curiously, why do I drink osmanthus rice wine on the Mid -Autumn Festival? The mother said that it was because osmanthus has been regarded as auspicious flowers since ancient times, symbolizing auspicious and rich.

The production process of osmanthus rice wine is not complicated, but it is not easy to make osmanthus rice wine with good color taste. The main osmanthus and glutinous rice are the key. The osmanthus is to pick up in the early August of the lunar calendar. The sweet -scented osmanthus fragrant is the best color and taste of rice wine. The selection of glutinous rice is also very particular. Mothers generally choose long glutinous rice. Although it is slightly lower than that of round glutinous rice, the rice fragrance is stronger, so the rice wine made will be better.

The mother was soaked in the washed glutinous rice the day before making osmanthus rice wine. The next day, she drained the soaked glutinous rice and put it on the cage. After a while, the rice fragrance drifted out with the steam, and I was lying greedily lying on the stove platform with the nose and smelling my nose. My mother always nodded my forehead, saying that I was a little cat. After tens of minutes, the glutinous rice is steamed until it is cooked without rotten, and it will be dried naturally after it is out of the pan. The next step is to crush the appropriate amount of wine to powder into the glutinous rice. Add an appropriate amount of cold water to spread the glutinous rice and stir well.

The last is canned fermentation. This is my favorite job. Every time I rush to hold the spoon to flatten the glutinous rice into the container, dig a pit in the middle of the glutinous rice with my fingers, and seal it and ferment it in the kitchen. After a week, when the whole house was filled with strong osmanthus wine, we knew that the Mid -Autumn Festival was here.

The Mid -Autumn Festival is reunited. My mother would Zhang Luo's rich dinner. My brother and I put on the table and chairs in the yard. Watching the dishes came up, the saliva was about to flow out. After dinner, the mother always brings out the prepared osmanthus rice wine as a dessert for meals, and then put on moon cakes, rhombus and some snacks. As we drink sweet osmanthus rice wine, we are talking about the moon. At that time, my father was always thinking, and the greatest wish would hope that I would be able to have a chance.

Yuehua was practicing, the trees in the yard, and every family sat around and drank osmanthus rice wine. From time to time, there were laughter and laughter. Such a warm and happy moment later appeared in my dream countless times.

Nowadays, the desires in those months have been realized, and I have gone through my own efforts. But when I first arrived abroad, the differences in culture and the habit of diet made me unable to integrate into the life there. In addition, the language is not unreasonable, it is difficult to keep up with the progress of the school's curriculum. All of this makes me have an unprecedented loss and confusion.

Three years have passed, because I did not return to China because of the epidemic. I called my mother a few days ago. She said that the osmanthus rice wine brewed this year is still very fragrant and sweet. She and father will wait for me to come back at home. In my eyes, my heart had already flew back to the small town of Jin Gui, and returned to the small courtyard in the bright moon, and tasted the Mid -Autumn Festival osmanthus rice wine with my parents. The taste was very sweet and sweet.

(Xia Li)

【Edit: Wang Rongfei】

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