On the Spring Festival, there will be some small things made of flowers, birds and animals on the shopping street of Hani people in Mujiang. They are made of cotton threads of different colors and placed or hung on tables by vendors. These colorful pieces of paper are local specialties and crisp. In order to make hemp brittle, we must go to the mountains to find plants such as pueraria lobata, wash the finely ground roots and cook them in a large iron pot for more than two hours. The rest of the juice is like what they call brittle medicine. The amount of juice directly affects its taste. It's a mouth-to-mouth formula. Never wipe it. Then, glutinous rice flour and sugarcane juice, together with crispy medicinal juice, are made into thin slices with flowers, birds, fish and insects and auspicious patterns, dyed with various natural plant colors, and directly fried for eating.
Carved plum is a traditional food of Bai nationality, named after the patterns carved on green plums. According to historical records, as early as the Nanzhao period in the Tang Dynasty, there was a custom of visiting relatives and friends and giving each other carved plums. Carved plums produced in Eryuan County, and plums soaked in lime and salt. Take it out and dry it, carve a continuous zigzag pattern on the plum with a knife, and carefully squeeze out the plum core to make it empty and thin. Flatten it, it looks like a blooming chrysanthemum, soaked in wine and brown sugar, delicious and refreshing.