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Northerners like to eat dumplings during the New Year, and southerners like to eat glutinous rice balls. Both northerners and southerners like to eat eight-treasure rice. It means good luck and peace! The eight kinds of ingredients represent eight kinds of blessings: glutinous rice symbolizes advancement, red beans symbolizes a prosperous life, longan symbolizes reunion, lotus seeds symbolizes a hundred years of good marriage, and candied dates symbolize sweetness. Putting so many blessings on one plate is like a cornucopia gathering wealth from all directions. This dessert is simple to make and has a profound meaning.
