What is the meaning of playing New Year's cake

A traditional Chinese folklore activity. The Chinese traditional folk custom of beating rice cakes is also known as shooing rice cakes. The custom has a long history in Zhejiang province. At the end of the lunar calendar, it is customary to make and eat rice cakes in rural areas, and every family will grind glutinous rice into powder and make rice cakes, which is not only a kind of food production, but also a kind of social and cultural activity. It represents unity, cooperation and sharing, and also expresses people's good wishes for the New Year.