What is the moral of eating New Year's cake on New Year's Eve?

The rice cake is eaten in honor of Wu Zixu. When King Goujian of Yue raised an army to attack Wu and surrounded the capital city of Wu, Wu Zixu saved the people of the city with the glutinous powder he had prepared in advance. Since then, every New Year's Eve, every family has made "city bricks" with glutinous rice flour to offer to Wu Zixu, and over time, they have come to be known as "New Year's Cake".

Nian Gao's production method: ready ingredients (glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour in a bowl); the glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour mixing and then mixing wet (while mixing the side of the small particles), with the hand to try the humidity, the hand a grasp into a ball, a rubbing on the crumbling open; steamer into the gauze, will be mixed with the flour to put in the steam for 20 minutes; steam and then take it out, cooled to the hands of not put into the baker to stir for 15 minutes; stirring the dough out of shaping, and put the dough into the baker to stir for 15 minutes. The dough out of the shaping, put in the refrigerator, a few hours after the basic shape out of the slices can be.