Japanese also eat rice cakes in the first month. Their rice cakes are round with glutinous rice, and Chinese characters say "mirror cakes". There is a beautiful legend about rice cakes in China's notes "Tales of Local Habits" in Nara era (AD 7 15-782): Once upon a time, there was an arrogant warrior who shot arrows at rice cakes. When the arrow was about to hit the target, the rice cake turned into a white swan and flew away. Therefore, the Japanese believe that there are gods boarding in rice cakes, so it is very sacred to make and eat rice cakes at the end of the year. Glutinous rice is hungry and nutritious, so there is a Japanese proverb called "three days after eating rice cakes", which means that eating rice cakes can last three days. Every year in the first month, a "tooth filling" ceremony is held in the palace, which is to invite the emperor to eat "mirror cakes" and wish him health and longevity. In the samurai era, all the warriors had to make sacrifices to the rice cakes before going out to war, so the rice cakes were dubbed "power cakes", from which all the warriors prayed for "divine power". There is also a life ceremony in Japan called "wearing cakes", which means that boys under the age of five are allowed to wear rice cakes on their heads in the first month, indicating that they will be strong and have a bright future when they grow up. The author once saw a one-year-old boy's "wearing a cake" ceremony in the suburbs of Tokyo. The boy was wearing a small kimono, standing barefoot on the tatami, with a huge mirror cake on his back and a serious face, while the adults murmured some congratulations and prayers. The sacred atmosphere is awesome. Japanese usually make rice cakes on the 25th to 28th of the twelfth lunar month. It is called "Nine Cakes" on the 29th and "One-night stand Cake" on New Year's Eve, which is taboo in many places. I have seen the scene of Japanese making rice cakes. But I saw a mortar with four pestles and four strong men, holding the pestle and pushing the steaming rice into the wooden mortar, and the pestle sounded loud. "Song Tou" led the singing, and everyone echoed: "Ah-auspicious Komatsu, (lush foliage), painted on the altar, (and cranes and turtles); Say goodbye to New Year's Eve and welcome the new year, (the door is loose and standing), and the Year God is coming to us, (the door is locked); My beloved chef. I can't help but join in (please take care). ..... the snow on Mount Fuji, (gradually melting), or put bean paste, (participating in rice cakes) ". It's been a few years since I left Japan. Every time I taste the rice cakes in my hometown, I can hear the neat and powerful songs of the Japanese.