What does it mean to eat rice cakes in the New Year?

Eating rice cakes in the New Year means getting taller every year, and people's work and life are getting better every year. The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "high every year". Eating rice cakes has always been a traditional custom in China New Year. Rice cakes are seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. The style of the New Year cake is square, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, as a symbol of getting rich in the New Year.

Eating rice cakes is in memory of Wu Zixu. Because Gou Jian, the King of Yue, sent troops to attack Wu and surrounded the capital of Wu, Wu Zixu saved the whole city with glutinous rice flour prepared in advance. Since then, every household has made "city bricks" with glutinous rice flour as a sacrifice to Wu Zixu during the Spring Festival. Over time, it is called rice cake.

Production method of rice cake: prepare ingredients (glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour are put in a bowl); Mix glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour evenly, and then wet mix (knead into small particles while mixing). Try the humidity by hand. When you grab them into a ball, they will break when you rub them. Put the gauze into a steamer and steam the mixed flour for 20 minutes; Take it out after steaming, and put it into a bread machine to stir when it is cool enough to not burn your hands 15 minutes; Take out the stirred dough for shaping, put it in the refrigerator, and take out the slices after basic shaping for several hours.