page_title: Chinese New Year's Eve
section_title: Glutinous Rice Cake
hierarchical_section_title: Chinese New Year's Eve / Traditions / Traditional foods for Chinese New Year’s Eve / Glutinous Rice Cake
caption_attribution_description: pregelatinized rice cake
context_page_description: Chinese New Year's Eve or Lunar New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. Celebrating Chinese New Year’s Eve has always been a family matter in China, it is the reunion day for every Chinese family. It has evolved over a long period of time. The origin of Chinese New Year’s Eve can be traced back to 3500 years ago. Chinese New Year's Eve originated in the Shang Dynasty, when Chinese held sacrificial ceremonies in honour of gods and ancestors at the end of each year. Then in the Zhou Dynasty, the phrase “Nian ”appeared and then certain cultural practices became popular among Chinese such as sending door god, burning bamboo.
context_section_description: Glutinous Rice Cake is called "Nian Gao" in mandarin. The sound of Nian Gao has a good meaning: getting higher year by year. Glutinous Rice Cake is made of sticky rice, sugar, chestnuts, lotus leaves. It is a common dish which appeared in the southern Chinese families' Lunar New Year Eve  reunion dinner.
caption: Glutinous Rice Cake
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