The photo, taken on January 18, shows villagers making yellow New Year cakes at a workshop in Dongtian Community, Centianhe Town, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County. Yellow New Year cake is made of fragrant rice and glutinous rice through the processes including soaking rice, making rice into powders, dyeing the dough with gardenia jasminoides ellis, kneading, and molding. Yellow New Year cake is a must-have during the Spring Festival for the Yao people. (Photo/Jiang Keqing and Yang Dingxiang)

The photo, taken on January 18, shows villagers making yellow New Year cakes at a workshop in Dongtian Community, Centianhe Town, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County. Yellow New Year cake is made of fragrant rice and glutinous rice through the processes including soaking rice, making rice into powders, dyeing the dough with gardenia jasminoides ellis, kneading, and molding. Yellow New Year cake is a must-have during the Spring Festival for the Yao people. (Photo/Jiang Keqing and Yang Dingxiang)

The photo, taken on January 18, shows villagers making yellow New Year cakes at a workshop in Dongtian Community, Centianhe Town, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County. Yellow New Year cake is made of fragrant rice and glutinous rice through the processes including soaking rice, making rice into powders, dyeing the dough with gardenia jasminoides ellis, kneading, and molding. Yellow New Year cake is a must-have during the Spring Festival for the Yao people. (Photo/Jiang Keqing and Yang Dingxiang)

The photo, taken on January 18, shows villagers making yellow New Year cakes at a workshop in Dongtian Community, Centianhe Town, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County. Yellow New Year cake is made of fragrant rice and glutinous rice through the processes including soaking rice, making rice into powders, dyeing the dough with gardenia jasminoides ellis, kneading, and molding. Yellow New Year cake is a must-have during the Spring Festival for the Yao people. (Photo/Jiang Keqing and Yang Dingxiang)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunantoday