Black Rice Festival

Name and category

According to the public notice of January 2024, Black Rice Festival is one of the new inscriptions in the recommended list for the fourth batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage items, in the folk-custom category. Two folk-custom items were submitted by the Hefeng Town People's Government in this batch; the other is Horn Lantern.

Applicant and place of transmission

The applicant unit named in the notice is the Hefeng Town People's Government. The first part of the title is the name of a seasonal food, and the word rendered here as "festival" presumably refers to a gathering or a temple procession; the notice gives no date, no site and no list of participating villages.

Wording of the item name

The notice uses this three-character name and not the names of the food itself or of a black-rice festival day. This entry follows the wording of the notice and does not merge the item with other names.

To be added

• the date of the gathering and the lunar season it falls in;
• the form, route and ritual sequence of the gathering;
• how the black rice is prepared and eaten;
• the villages taking part and the body that organises it;
• the historical origin and line of transmission.

Points in doubt

This library holds no source on the seasonal date associated with black rice, so no date is given here; the point awaits a source.