Rice cakes. Most of them are seasonal foods made of glutinous rice (glutinous rice) or glutinous rice flour with different accessories. The traditional custom of eating rice cakes in the New Year began in the Zhou Dynasty. The rice cake is yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. It not only embodies the good wish of a bumper harvest and a rich life, but also means "long life". Today's rice cakes have developed into colorful New Year foods.
Yuanxiao. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south. Yuanxiao was very popular in the Song Dynasty. It was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Usually, raw materials such as white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts and jujube paste are used as stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is wrapped in a circle. Meat can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means reunion and happy life.