Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival means that people's work and life are getting better every year. New Year's cakes, also known as "New Year's cakes", are homophonic with "high every year". Eating new year's cakes has always been a traditional custom in Chinese New Year. New Year's cakes are seasonal foods for the Lunar New Year. The styles of new year's cakes are square yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, as a symbol of making a fortune in the New Year.

Eating rice cakes is in memory of Wu Zixu. Because Gou Jian, the King of Yue, attacked Wu in dispatch troops and surrounded the capital of Wu, Wu Zixu saved the people of the whole city with glutinous rice flour prepared in advance. Since then, during the Spring Festival, every household has used glutinous rice flour as a "city brick" to offer sacrifices to Wu Zixu. Over time, it has been called rice cakes.

method of making rice cakes: prepare ingredients (glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour are put in a bowl); Mix glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour well, and then mix them wet (knead them into small granules while mixing). Try the humidity with your hands. When you grab them into a ball, they will break when you rub them. Placing gauze in the steamer, and steaming the mixed flour for 2 minutes; Take it out after steaming, and put it into the bread machine to stir for 15 minutes when it is cool enough to not burn your hands; Take out the stirred dough for shaping, put it in the refrigerator, take it out and slice it after a few hours of basic shaping.