There are many traditions associated with the Chinese new year celebration or ‘Spring Festival’. According to legends, one week before the ‘Spring Festival’ begins, the ‘Kitchen God’, assembles on earth and in order to satisfy him Chinese new year rice cakes are served and feasted by the whole family. It’s typically a certain variety of fruit cake cooked in an exotic manner. Making of Chinese new year rice cake requires
flour, butter, glutinous rice flour, chopped walnuts and Chinese dried fruits. Some people prepare the rice cake in brown sugar sauce to make it a special dessert recipe.
Traditional Chinese new year rice cake has great importance in the new year festival as the meal is very luxurious and tasty. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd signify auspiciousness, abundance and richness and hence are cooked to mark the festive occasion. |
Natives of Southern China eat ‘niangao’, a new year rice cake on the occasion of new year’s eve because ‘niangao’ means "higher and higher, one year after another," in other words it means increasing goodness in one’s life. Various kinds of mouth watering Chinese new year rice cakes are prepared along with
desserts, Red Jujube Sauce and Red beans.
Significance of Chinese new year rice cake lies in the fact that it symbolizes advancement, wealth and good luck. Fish also plays a large role in new year festive celebrations as they represents a good beginning and abundance of wealth. Chinese new year sticky rice cakes have symbolic significance on many levels as their sweetness symbolizes a rich, sweet life, while the layers indicates rising abundance for the coming year and finally, the round shape signifies family reunion. Thus, celebrate the festive new year’s eve with the special Chinese new year rice cakes and recipes.
123newyear.com shows you the exotic making of Chinese New Year Rice Cakes.
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