After Wu Zixu's death, war broke out in wuyue, and the city was short of food. At this time, it was time for the New Year to come. The villagers remembered Wu Zixu's instructions before his death, and they fought for three feet to dig the ground. Since then, in order to commemorate Wu Zixu, Suzhou people have made rice cakes shaped like bricks every New Year. Gradually, they made and ate rice cakes during the New Year, which became popular all over the country.
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Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival means auspiciousness: during the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. New Year's cakes, also known as "New Year's cakes", are homophonic with "high every year", meaning that people's work and life are improved year by year. You must eat rice cakes in the new year, and the wind is the same in the north and south. Eat rice cakes to wish life "high year after year"
The rice cake is mainly made of steamed rice flour after being pounded and other processes. It was named because it was made before the Chinese New Year. China has a long history of making rice cakes.
Nowadays, the raw materials and practices of rice cakes in different places have their own characteristics and different flavors. In Saibei, farmers are used to grinding millet into powder and steaming golden yellow rice cakes. In the south of the Yangtze River, people like to grind glutinous rice into rice slurry with water and steam it into strips or bricks of water-milled rice cakes.