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, 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 style of rice cakes is 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 rice cakes have a slightly deeper meaning and are as white as silver yellow 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 for worshipping gods and ancestors at the New Year's Eve, and later 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."