New Year cake is the traditional food of the Chinese nation, which belongs to the seasonal food of the Chinese New Year. New year's cake is a kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating New Year's cake.

New Year cake is red, yellow and white, which symbolizes gold and silver. It is also called "New Year cake". It is homophonic with "annual high", which means that people's work and life are improved year by year. Therefore, there is a poem called niangao by predecessors: "niangao implies a little dark cloud, white as silver yellow gold. When you are old, you look forward to the good times. When you are old, you look forward to the good fortune.