New Year's cakes are homophonic "Year High". Eating New Year's cakes indicates that they are getting higher every year, which expresses everyone's expectation for the new year and a good wish. New Year's cakes are indispensable for the New Year.

Literally speaking, it is full of auspicious meaning. "Nian" and "Sticky" are homonyms, which can be understood as the meaning of New Year or reunion and cohesion, while "Gao" is homophonic, which means rising step by step. In addition, rice cakes have varied tastes.

It has almost become a must-have food for every family. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, symbolizing gold and silver, and expressing the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year. A poem by predecessors called rice cakes: "The meaning of rice cakes is a little deep, and white is like silver, yellow and gold. Looking forward to the high age and profit, I sincerely hope that the money will come.

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The rice cakes eaten on holidays are mostly seasonal foods made of glutinous rice (glutinous rice) or glutinous rice flour with different accessories. There are many kinds of rice cakes, such as white rice cakes from the north, yellow rice cakes from farmers in Saibei, Shuimo rice cakes from water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and red turtle cakes from Taiwan Province. Rice cakes have different flavors from north to south.

It is said that the earliest rice cakes were used to worship the gods in the New Year's Eve and for ancestors in the New Year's Eve, and later they became food for the Spring Festival. The rice cake is not only a kind of holiday food, but also brings people new hope with the passing of the year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "People's hearts are high, and food is made in harmony, so that the year is better than the year, so as to pray for the year."