Tai Chi rice

Legend of Black Rice:
Mulian's mother suffered on the Hungry Ghost Path on the 18th floor of Hell. After Mulian cultivated and achieved enlightenment, she went to great lengths to get permission to visit her mother in Hell. However, every time she prepared food, she was eaten by the hungry ghost jailers along the way. In order to feed her hungry mother, Mulian was puzzled. For this reason, she often lingered in the mountains. One day (it was the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar), in helplessness and annoyance, Mulian accidentally picked the leaves from a short tree beside her on the mountain, put them in her mouth and chewed them in boredom, and found that the leaves were fragrant and delicious, and the leaf juice was black. Mu Lian thought that if she used this leaf juice to soak rice and boiled it into black rice and sent it to her mother, she would not be eaten by the jailers. So Mulian took the picked leaves home and smashed them, soaked the rice with leaf juice, boiled them into black, and sent them to her mother. Sure enough, the hungry ghost jailers stopped fighting, and Mulian's mother finally had a full meal. Mulian also finally saved her mother from the hungry ghost path. In order to praise Mulian's filial piety, every family in Yixing eats black rice on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which has been passed down to this day. Nanzhu leaves (commonly known as "Wufan Grass" in Yixing) used to make black rice by folk people in Yixing mainly grow in the hilly and mountainous areas of southern Yixing. The rice used to make black rice is generally mainly glutinous rice, mixed with some japonica rice, which is particularly fragrant and delicious after cooking. The custom of eating black rice in Yixing has a long history and has been passed down from generation to generation. By the Ming Dynasty, medical scientist Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" stated: "Pick the leaves of Nanzhu and mash them, soak them in to obtain juice, and cook japonica rice or glutinous rice to make a dark rice. After taking it for a long time, it will lighten the body and improve eyesight, and have black hair to retain the face. Strengthen your strength and prolong your life." There is also a record in the "Yixing County Annals":"We eat black rice on the eighth day of April. On this day, the performance is called 'black rice offering.'.. It is also said that Mulian soaked glutinous rice with leaves of Qingjing Tree (a name called Nantian Zhu) and boiled it into 'black rice' to deceive ghosts and soldiers to save its mother. This custom has been passed down to this day." Yixing black rice is a specialty of Yixing. It is also a unique folk culture created by the people of Yixing. It has distinctive local characteristics and has great influence around Yixing.
This product has the effects of replenishing spleen and kidney, relieving cough, tranquilizing the nerves, improving eyesight, and blackening hair. It is suitable for dietary therapy and tonic for people with weak physique.