Where is the custom of playing rice cake

Playing rice cake is a custom in Zhejiang.

Making rice cakes, also known as shoving rice cakes. Customs in the Zhejiang region from a long time ago, to the end of the lunar calendar, the rural areas have to play the rice cake, eat rice cake habit, every family will use the glutinous rice ground into powder into a rice cake, and as a new year in the family to send relatives of the traditional gift, and thus the "rice cake" has become a folk blessing of friends and family year after year, "good luck".

Playing rice cake is a study, but also a technology, less than the fire is difficult to become a rice cake, playing bad not only eat up not delicate, and storage time is not long, easy to crack. In Haining City, Chang'an, Dingqiao, Maqiao and other rural villages still retain the custom of playing stone mortar rice cake, before, at the end of the year, families will find ways to play their own rice cake.

The custom of playing rice cake:

Some places simply folk village spontaneously formed a rice cake team, focusing on ten days and half a month for farmers to play rice cake. Two years ago, Chang'an town Chu Shi village five groups Chu Linxi and other six people spontaneously formed the village rice cake team. Amoy rice, grinding powder, fire, on the steam, turn the steam, hit the cake, point red, forming a production line, solving the villagers to hit the rice cake difficult problem.

According to the master chef Chu Linxi, who is responsible for steaming, every year at the beginning of the 12th lunar month to start playing the rice cake, until the 27th day of the 12th lunar month to end. An average of 17 to 18 steamers per day, half a month to play down, it is estimated that the group and foreign villagers to play more than 9,000 pounds of rice cakes.