The rice cake is a traditional food made of glutinous rice, and its history can be traced back to ancient China. According to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty, people already had methods to make rice cakes.

There is a legend about the origin of rice cakes: According to legend, in ancient times, an elderly grandmother was preparing to welcome the New Year, but because she was too old to steam glutinous rice, she kneaded glutinous rice balls into small balls and threw them into the pot, but the result turned into long strips of food, which was the later rice cakes.

In addition, rice cakes are also symbolic in the traditional culture of China. Because of the homonym of "cake" and "Gao", New Year's cake is regarded as an auspicious food symbolizing "Gao Sheng", and people eat it with better expectations for their future life.