Cake with the word "cake", and high "homophonic, New Year's Eve cake and eat rice cakes a reason, are meant to rise, is a wish for the New Year.
Cake first originated in the West, and then slowly introduced to China. Style from the origin of the birthday cake from the Middle Ages, Europeans believe that the birthday is the soul is the most vulnerable to demonic invasion of the day, so in the birthday day, relatives and friends will gather around to give blessings, and send cake to bring good luck to expel the devil.