Who knows what Baba means? Playing Baba in the New Year.

It is made of glutinous rice similar to rice cakes (also made of rice we usually eat, glutinous rice is called Ciba, and rice is called bait cake), and it is called Baba in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places, because the traditional production method is mostly to beat it in a wooden trough with a mallet (now the machine is used more).