What is the significance and symbol of steamed rice cakes?

The meaning and symbol of steamed rice cakes;

Rice cakes, also called rice cakes, are getting better and better year by year, which means that people's work and life are getting better and better year by year. Like northerners eating jiaozi in the New Year, it is an attractive food. Therefore, there is a poem called rice cake by predecessors, which means that the cloud is a little deeper, the cake is as white as silver and as yellow as gold. I look forward to getting old and making high profits. I sincerely hope that the money will come.

On the first day of the Spring Festival, people pay attention to eating rice cakes, which means "getting taller every year". The general custom is to eat during the Spring Festival. Rice cake is a traditional food of Han nationality. It is steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour and is a timely food for the Lunar New Year in China.

The Historical Origin of Steamed Rice Cake

As a kind of food, rice cakes have a long history in China. 1974, archaeologists discovered rice seeds at Hemudu matriarchal clan social site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, indicating that our ancestors began to grow rice as early as 7000 years ago. People in Han Dynasty called rice cakes "rice cakes", "fish bait" and "glutinous rice cakes".

The ancients also had a development process from rice cakes to rice cakes. In the 6th century A.D., the cookbook Historical Records contained the method of making "white cocoon candy" for rice cakes, which said: "Cooked rice is hotter than Chu Jiu's, and it needs to be cooked very well so as not to have rice grains." That is, after the glutinous rice is steamed, it is cooked while it is hot, then cut into peach pit size, dried and fried, and rolled with sugar.