Why do you want to eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival?

New Year's cakes, also known as "New Year's cakes", are homophonic with "getting higher every year", which means that people's work and life are getting better every year, just like northerners eating jiaozi in the New Year. It is an attractive food. Therefore, in the past, there was a poem called rice cake, which implied a little cloud depth and was as white as silver and gold. I look forward to getting old and making high profits. I sincerely hope that the money will come. It means that people's work and life are improving year by year.

The earliest rice cakes were used for sacrifice. They worship the gods on New Year's Eve and their ancestors on New Year's Eve, and only later did they become food for the Spring Festival. Every year is full of good hopes. Eating rice cakes is not only because it is delicious, but also because it has a good meaning, expressing the desire of "getting taller every year". As early as the Han Dynasty, people at that time called rice cakes "rice cakes", "bait" and "glutinous rice cakes".

There are also records of making rice cakes in ancient books, that is, after steaming glutinous rice, stir-fry it while it is hot, then cut it into peach pits, dry it in the shade, stir-fry it in a pot before eating, and then roll it up with sugar to eat.