The rice cake is a traditional food made of glutinous rice, and its history can be traced back to ancient China. According to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty, people already had the method of making rice cakes.

There is a legend about the origin of rice cakes: it is said that there was an elderly grandmother in ancient times who was preparing to welcome the new year, but because she was too old to steam glutinous rice, she rolled glutinous rice balls into small balls and threw them into a pot, but the result turned into long food, which was later the rice cakes.

In addition, the rice cake is also a symbol of China traditional culture. Because of the homonym of "cake" and "Gao", rice cakes are regarded as auspicious food symbolizing "Gao Sheng", and people eat rice cakes to have better expectations for future life.