The reason for eating rice cake on New Year's Eve is that it is a Chinese New Year's food, which means that it is a good hope for the year, and it is not only for eating this kind of food, but also because it has a very good meaning, which means that it is a wish for a high quality year after year.

Nian gao has a long history of thousands of years in our country, is an important member of our food culture, rice cakes are made from glutinous rice, as early as 7000 years ago, our ancestors began to cultivate rice, as early as in the Han Dynasty, when the people of the rice cake on the "rice cake", "bait", "bait", "bait", "bait", "bait", "bait", "bait", "bait" and "bait". As early as the Han Dynasty, people at the time called the rice cake "rice cake", "bait", "mochi" and so on.

The origin of rice cake:

In ancient times, there was a monster called the year, all year round living in the mountains and old forests, hungry to capture other beasts to feed, but to the harsh winter season, most of the beasts are hiding to rest their eyes, the year was hungry when it was forced to go down to hurt the people, grabbing people to serve as food, so the people were not able to bear the pain.

Then there is a clever tribe called the Gao clan, every winter, expect the beast is about to come down the mountain for food, beforehand with a large amount of food made of grain, rolled into a strip, snap into a piece of land outside the door, people hide in the house. When the year comes, they can't find anyone to eat, and when they are hungry, they will use the food made by the people to fill up their stomachs, and then go back to the mountains after they have eaten their fill.

People look at the beast away, have to go out of their homes to congratulate each other, lucky to have escaped the year of a pass, safe and sound, and can be prepared for the spring plowing. This way, year after year, this method of avoiding the beast has been passed down. Because the grain bars are made by Gao, in order to feed the year off, Yu will be the year and Gao associated together, called as the year cake (harmonic).