A woman paints on glutinous rice cakes in Quanzhou county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in Dec 2012. [Photo by Wang Zichuang/asianewsphoto.com]

Eating glutinous rice cake

In some areas of south China, people have glutinous rice cakes in the early 10th lunar month, which is around Minor Snow. In ancient times, glutinous rice cake was a traditional festival offering to the bull god used by peasants.