The rice is used to make rice cakes. Beating rice cake is a custom, also known as shoving rice cake, which is mainly popular in Zhejiang province. At the end of the lunar calendar, people use glutinous rice ground into flour, and every family makes rice cakes from the rice and gives them to friends and relatives as traditional gifts in the New Year. Making rice cakes is not only a kind of food, but also a way of passing on culture and tradition. The custom of making rice cakes represents the good wishes for a good harvest and the blessing of a long life for the elderly and a long life for the children.