每到四月初八,在南京市郊的溧水、句容一带,农民又开始忙碌着做乌饭了,他们采集乌饭树的树叶洗净捣烂,然后滤汁,用汁水浸泡上好的糯米、粳米,晾干蒸制曝干,此时饭色呈正青色,米粒紧小,黑如坚珠,乌米饭也就做成了。吃时,用开水一滚,即成清香可口的乌米饭。民间吃乌饭的习俗源于何时?相传战国时,孙膑、宠涓同师学艺,宠涓的学问不如孙膑,十分嫉妒,于是设计加害孙膑,将他的膑骨削去,使他成为瘫子,关入猪舍中,并派人监视,不给送食物。狱中的老卒,可怜孙膑,为了躲过宠涓爪牙的耳目,用乌饭捏成小团子,偷偷地送给孙膑吃,因为乌饭米团子呈乌褐色,貌似猪粪,孙膑才得以活下来,后来在马陵道上报了昔日之仇。 Every eighth day of April, in the Lishui and Jurong suburbs of Nanjing, the peasants started to cook black rice again. They collected the leaves of the black rice tree, washed it, smashed it, filtered it, soaked the glutinous rice with the water, Dry rice, dried and exposed to dryness, when the color is positive cyan, rice tight, black as Jianzhu, rice will be made. Eat, a roll with boiling water, Serve fragrant and delicious rice. According to legend, when the Warring States Period, Sun Yat-sen, pet trickery with the masters of art, pet trickery as Sun Bin, very jealous, so harmful to the design Sun Sun, cut his tarsal bone, making him Paralysis, shut into the barn, and sent to monitor, do not give food. Paladin in prison, poor Sun Nai, in order to escape pet teeth, eyes, with black rice kneaded into small groups, secretly gave Sun Bin to eat, because the black rice dumpling was brown, looks like pig manure, Sun was able to live Down, and later reported on the Malting Road, the old enemy.