过年吃年糕是我国传统的民间习俗。新年伊始,全家围着火炉,吃着香甜可口的年糕,谈笑风生,是多么惬意。可是,如果人们知道有关年糕的传说和它的保健作用,更会觉得年糕这种传统美食的来历是不平常的。年糕的来历在两千多年前,春秋战国时期,诸侯称雄,各霸一方,为了扩充各自的领地,削弱对方的势力,诸侯之间展开了混战。吴国 New Year eat rice cake is our traditional folk customs. The beginning of the new year, the family around the stove, eating sweet and delicious rice cakes, laughing, how pleasant. However, if people know about the legend of rice cakes and its health effects, they will find the origins of the traditional food such as rice cakes more unusual. The origins of rice cakes more than two thousand years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, princes dominated, the hegemony of one party, in order to expand their respective territories, weaken each other’s forces, princes launched a melee. Wu country