Playing patty cake means making rice cake, a folk custom of Chinese New Year celebration. It is popular in southern China. The main areas are: Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui, Tibet, Hunan and Guizhou.

Mochi, also known as rice cake, is made and eaten on New Year's Day, and making mochi before New Year's Day is a custom that has been passed down in rural areas for thousands of years. It has a strong rural flavor, and the patty cake activity has become an important preparatory activity for everyone before the New Year. The patties are made by steaming glutinous rice and then punching it through special stone grooves. Playing patties by hand is laborious, but the resulting patties are soft and delicate, with an excellent flavor.

Methods of playing mochi

1, put into the vessel

First of all, play mochi first to do a good job of preparation, prepare the stone mortar and stone pounding, these two utensils used to play mochi is the best. Steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar, it is best to put more than half of the stone mortar, so that if you hit, it will be easier to force. Don't put too much, otherwise it will easily overflow when playing, and if you put less, there may not be a point of force, so the amount and position of the rice is very important.

2, two people alternately hit

When the glutinous rice into the stone mortar, you can begin to beat. Whacking, not a person to play on the line, it is best to alternate between two people, a person will be pounded down to pick up when the other person to quickly follow, so you one I one can be very fast patty cake, very good, and can save a long time.

Of course, in the process of hitting, the two must work together, never hit in at the same time, or at the same time to carry out, and can not hit the other side of the stone in the spring, otherwise it will cause danger.

3, playing fast, accurate, ruthless

In playing mochi, must be fast, accurate, ruthless. Each hit down the action should be fast, pick up the action should also be fast, so that the sticky rice will be played out, and each time the force should be ruthless, must be used with sufficient force, so that the patties can be played very soft and sticky.

There is also the need to be accurate, each hit to the patties, never hit out of bounds or hit the top of the stone mortar, otherwise you will not be able to hit the patties very well.