When is Zhongshan's New Year's Eve dinner for making rice cakes?

Making rice cakes in Zhongshan is an auspicious day before the Spring Festival.

After New Year's Day, open the cake.

Boiled rice cakes and fried piles:

The custom of "cooking rice cakes" is a unique custom of Zhongshan people during the New Year. According to Xiangshan county records? In the fifth volume of Tongzhi, there is such a record: "Those who make cage cakes are several meters. Those who make them with sugar are called sweet cakes, otherwise they are called white cakes ... and those who cook with yellow leaf juice and powder are called yellow leaf cakes; Cooking glutinous rice into rice and kneading it into cakes are all white. " It records the custom of making rice cakes in Longdu area.

There is a saying in all parts of Zhongshan during the Spring Festival: "Everyone has me when trading stocks at night." The custom of "cooking rice cakes" is a unique custom of Zhongshan people during the New Year. When foreigners first arrived in Zhongshan, they all laughed at Zhongshan people for "driving" when they saw those "ordinary hairy" rice cakes (with colorful long hairs and enzymes on their surfaces). However, despite people's jokes, Zhongshan people's custom of making cakes for the New Year has not changed since ancient times and has become a major event for Zhongshan people to celebrate the New Year. Similarly, cakes should be made on auspicious days before the Spring Festival. Housewives in every household got up and worshipped with clean incense on their hands, and then began to work. They use glutinous rice as powder, mix it with yellow (red) syrup, knead it into a whole paste, add condiments such as salted pork and salted egg yolk, put it in a steamer with banana leaves and bamboo leaves at the bottom, and cook it with slow fire for more than ten hours. After the rice cake is steamed, you should say a few auspicious words and respectfully put them in the class, then put red dates, plums, a word "plum" and two oranges, and then open the cake after the New Year (that is, after the first day of the New Year's Day). It means: "rice cake, rice cake, step by step", "grow up quickly" and so on.