Every New Year's Festival, people want to beg for a good head. Food can bring you a joy, in addition to meeting the needs of the taste buds, but also in the process of production, you can also experience the charm of a long-standing culture. There is such a non-genetic handmade food, it is both rich in nutrition, soft and sticky, but also has a beautiful meaning, take advantage of the Spring Festival, eat it!
This traditional flavor is the Korean cake, also known as the taste of the introduction, the introduction of the cake, the powder, the bean cake. There are generally two kinds of cakes, one is a white cake made of glutinous rice, and the other is a yellow cake made of yellow rice, which is made of wooden sticks, so it is called "cake". The Korean people have a long history of eating cakes, and on major festive days such as New Year's Festivals, old birthdays, children's birthdays, and wedding celebrations, cakes are an indispensable food on the table.
To make a cake, you must first choose the best northern glutinous rice, the glutinous rice must be soaked for a day before it can be put into the pot to steam, and then the steamed glutinous rice is put into a wooden or stone trough, usually two people standing face to face at the edge of the trough, beating each other alternately until it is beaten into a cake. When eaten, it should be dipped in red bean paste or sautéed soybean noodles, and the taste is tender, lubricated and tendonous. During the cake making process, onlookers sang and danced enthusiastically, which is an important part of Korean folk activities.
Korean cakes are created, enriched and developed by the Korean people in their long-term production and life, and have distinct national and regional characteristics. Cake is a necessary food for Koreans in various festivals and harvest celebrations, and is an important part of Korean folk activities. During the Chinese New Year, every household prepares a lot of sticky rice cakes and gives them to neighbors, relatives and friends. From this custom, the saying "eating cakes for the New Year" has emerged.
Cakes are not only used to eat or entertain guests, but also as gifts from friends and family. Cake is a food with very high nutritional value and health function. In Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, whenever a child takes the college entrance examination, the Korean people will expect their children to go to the gate of the institution of higher learning, and throw the cakes made at home in advance on the wall and gate of the school when it is not dawn in the early morning, and the higher the throwing, the greater the hope of the child to enter the university, which means that the prosperity is rising, the title of the gold list.
As a Korean folk food, after hundreds of years of history, the cultural accumulation is profound, in the process of inheritance and development, it integrates the characteristics of the traditional food culture of the Korean people, and reflects the life and food culture of the Korean people, and has a high historical value and cultural value.