The Moral of Making New Year's Cake

Playing New Year cake symbolizes rising up step by step.

Playing rice cake is a folk activity, but also an important carrier of cultural heritage. Every year, near the end of the lunar calendar, Jiangsu and Zhejiang will carry out an important folk activity - playing rice cake, which means getting higher and higher, and the working people tend to put the good expectations for the coming year in the food.

Playing rice cakes is a skillful job, but also a very tiring work of strength, kung fu fire is not in place to make rice cakes, inexperienced to make rice cakes, not only eaten not sticky, and stored shortly after the cracks easily.

Making rice cakes stone mill, stone mortar and steam frame, in Jiangnan was once a household must-have appliances, from mixing rice, rice, grinding, fire, on the steam, turn the steam, cake, point red, to cut, do rice cakes before and after more than ten procedures, which is the most strenuous in the old stone mortar with a sandalwood hammer cake, it is said that a good rice cake, you have to play a hundred or two hundred for the top grade.

Inheritance of rice cake

Nian gao is a traditional Chinese food, mainly steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour, was made into a variety of shapes and flavors of salty and sweet cakes, it is said that the rice cake is from the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the capital city of Wu began to be passed down, that is, the present Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was once in the area of Ningbo, the folk have The folk proverb of "rice cake, rice cake, rice cake, this year is better than last year".

People use rice cake printing plate pressed into "five blessings", "six treasures", "money", "Ruyi "White goose" and other small animals, and rice cakes have red, yellow, white, symbolizing the gold and silver, rice cakes, also known as the year cake, and the year high harmonics, these constitute the true meaning of the content and form of the perfect combination.