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Origin of Eight-treasure Rice Pudding
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The Eight-treasure Rice Pudding is used as a banquet course due to its pleasant colour, fragrance, taste and shape. In some places, brown sugar is melted with burning liquor. This practice of burning liquor to melt brown sugar originated in the story of eight scholars recruited by King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty in present-day Shaanxi Province to conquer the tyrannical King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty.
They indeed played a positive role in toppling the Shang Dynasty. When the triumph over King Zhou was celebrated in the Zhou capital city of Hao, the chefs of the imperial kitchen concocted a kind of pudding made from eight treasured ingredients, and topped it with fiery-coloured haw juice to symbolize these scholars.
The Eight-treasure Rice Pudding thus came down through the generations as a favoured course of the Chinese banquet.
According to Chinese tradition, the Eight-treasure Rice Pudding is served and eaten on the 7th day of the 1st lunar month to mark the end of Spring Festival and the beginning of New Year.
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