The moral of the rice cake is to rise step by step, all the best and make a fortune in the new year. Because of the homonym "Gao nian", the style of rice cakes has a square yellow and white rice cake, which symbolizes gold and silver and expresses the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year. It is said that the earliest rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve, and later became food for the Spring Festival. Eating rice cakes is not only because they are delicious, but also because they have a good meaning, which indicates a high desire every year.

How to eat rice cakes:

The taste of rice cakes varies from place to place. Beijingers like to eat jujube rice cakes, 100-fruit rice cakes and white rice cakes made of glutinous rice or yellow rice. Hebei people like to add jujube, red beans and mung beans to rice cakes and steam them together. In northern Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places, it is customary to eat yellow wheat fried rice cakes during the New Year, and some people will also stuff them with bean paste and jujube paste, while Shandong people steam rice cakes with yellow rice and red dates. The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar.