The rice cake originated from the ancient State of Wu. In order to prevent foreign aggression, Wu Zixu, a doctor of the State of Wu, led people to build the famous He Lv City in the capital. After Wu Zixu committed suicide, the State of Yue took the opportunity to cut Wu, and the people were trapped in the city and starved.

So he secretly tore down the city wall and dug up the ground, only to find that the foundation of the city was made of bricks and stones made of glutinous rice, so people made a kind of food with this brick and stone to tide over the difficulties, and this food was the early rice cake.

After successfully surviving the crisis, the people of Wu, in order to thank Wu Zixu, pressed the glutinous rice into rice cakes similar to city bricks to offer sacrifices to Wu Zixu during the Chinese New Year, and at the same time, they took the auspicious meaning of climbing the mountain step by step every year.

Summary:

The rice cakes originated from the ancient state of Wu. After the death of Wu Zixu, the doctor of Wu, the State of Yue took the opportunity to cut down Wu, and the people of Wu were trapped in the city, so they secretly tore down the city walls and dug up the ground, only to find that the city foundation was made of bricks made of glutinous rice, and it was Wu Zixu who ordered the glutinous rice to be made into bricks. The people made a kind of food out of glutinous rice bricks to tide over the difficulties, and this food was the early rice cakes. Later, in order to thank Wu Zixu, people pressed glutinous rice into similar city bricks every New Year.