Eating rice cakes during the New Year means getting better every year, and people’s work and life are getting better year by year. Nian Gao is also called "Nian Nian Gao", which is homophonic with "Nian Nian Gao". Eating Nian Gao has always been a traditional custom during the Spring Festival in my country. New Year cake is a seasonal food during the Lunar New Year. New Year cakes come in square yellow or white shapes, symbolizing gold and silver, and implying prosperity in the new year.

Eating rice cakes is to commemorate Wu Zixu. As King Gou Jian of Yue raised his troops to attack Wu and surrounded the capital of Wu, Wu Zixu saved the people in the city by using the glutinous rice flour prepared in advance. From then on, during the Chinese New Year, every household used glutinous rice flour to make "city bricks" to worship Wu Zixu. Over time, it became known as rice cakes.

How to make rice cakes: Prepare the ingredients (put glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour in a bowl); mix the glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour evenly and then mix them to wet them (knead them into small particles while mixing) , test the humidity with your hands, and it will form into a ball with your hands, and it will break apart when you rub it; put gauze in the steamer, put the mixed flour in and steam for 20 minutes; take it out after steaming, and put the bread in when it is cool enough to not be hot to your hands. Mix with a machine for 15 minutes; take out the mixed dough, shape it, and refrigerate it. After a few hours, it will be basically set and then take it out and slice it.