25. 年 糕
New Year cake
(made of glutinous rice flour)
rice cake
26. 最早年糕是为年夜祭神、正月
初一供祖先所用,后来才成为
春节食品。 年糕的由来 the Offerings for the deities on New Year’s Eve.
the tributes for ancestors on the 1st of new year.
27. 年糕名称的含义年糕也叫年年糕,人们把它称
为年年高,也意味着生活和学
习一年比一年提高。年糕不仅
是一种节日美食,而且喻意带
来新的希望。
糕 --- 高 同音词
“cake” and “high” homophonic
年糕 --- higher in the new year.
As such ,eating New Year cake/rice cake has the symbolic meaning of raising oneself in each coming year.