Rice cake is a traditional food and New Year food popular in East Asia.
Rice cakes, a traditional food of the Han nationality in China, belong to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. Rice cakes are made of rice or glutinous rice, cooked into rice, beaten or ground into powder by water, and pressed. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. There are three colors of rice cakes, red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. Rice cakes are also called "New Year's cakes", which is homophonic with "height every year", implying that children are getting taller every year. Therefore, there was a poem by predecessors that called the rice cake: "The meaning of the rice cake is a little deep, and the white is like silver yellow gold. I hope that when I am old, I will be profitable, and I sincerely hope that my wealth will come. "