"BAKCANG" STICKY RICE FOR DUANWU JIE FESTIVAL

"BAKCANG" STICKY RICE FOR DUANWU JIE FESTIVAL

Sticky rice is very famous for chinese (Tionghua) community, sticky rice is simbolyze ceremony, celebration and competition. For Tionghua community Bakcang sticky rice is ceremony to celebrate Duanwu Jie, Duan  is a hero who state official fight and sacrifice himself for his country until rowning in the vast ocean. The people who support him to look at the ocean with rice and meat spreads that the animals do not prey on his body. The incident occurred on the 5th of the 5th month in the summer, of that event is always celebrated every year with "Bakcang" Sticky rice Festival. Every ceremony is marked by making and eating bakcang or celebration called "Peh Cuan". In Peh Cun ceremony presenting rice dumplings and prayer to get positive energy and daylight to health, work and safety.

For a Chinese community there are 3 major holidays, the Chinese New Year, Peh Cuan and Tiongjiu Pia (Moon Cake).

 In celebration of Peh Cun there are 4 activities, namely making and eating bakcang, stand eggs, dragon boat races (dragon festival board) and a shower in the middle of the day.
Stand Competition eggs and dragon boat race is held each year for the celebration Peh Cuan.Believed the strongest energy of the earth out falls squarely on the feast Peh Cuan, so the competition is held which shows and requires great energy and pray to gain greater power.

Rice dumplings made of glutinous rice that contains a complete side dishes, mushrooms furnace, pork flavoring, lotus ore, walnuts, soybean, egg yolk duck, pork sausage, hmmm ... yummy. Wrapped in bamboo leaves that have been cleaned and square shaped and fastened to close bakcang in each wrapper. It takes a long, long time for the preparation of ingredients and boil bakcang. Start of soak bamboo leaves as wrappers bakcang, spice pork until selecting sticky rice, lotus ore, mushrooms furnace  and walnuts are qualified to get the perfect taste. To boil bakcang takes 12 hours and 6 hours when using a pressure cooker.  

The actual content of  Bakcang to suit any taste, bakcang synonymous with egg yolk duck and pork seasoning. The rest is just extra variety to add to the enjoyment of bakcang.
Lotus ore identical china dishes that often uses the lotus as a mixed ore in various kinds of dishes typical of china.