As the Chinese New Year approaches, the streets are filled with festive atmosphere in Zhongshan. Families here are busy preparing for the Spring Festival. In the Longdu area, people in particular retain a deep feeling for the Chinese New Year's cake, an indispensable traditional delicacy during the Spring Festival.

▲Pour an appropriate amount of brown sugar water into the flour.

▲The ingredients for making Chinese New Year's cakes include minced meat, salted egg yolk, and so on.

▲The batter slowly flows into the basket and is stacked layer by layer.

▲Pastry chefs place the Chinese New Year's cakes one by one on the rack for steaming.

▲Steamed for eight or nine hours, the cakes are ready.

▲Zhou Bolun, owner of a bakery, makes money-shaped cakes, attracting many customers.

▲Work well together.

▲Youjiao, or fried dumpling, a traditional snack for the Spring Festival. (Photo by Yu Zhaoyu)