The brown sugar rice cake is called sweet glutinous rice in Hainan. Because it is steamed with a basket, it is also called the 粑 basket. It is a traditional Han Chinese snack in Hainan. In Hainan, from the New Year's Day to the 15th of the first month, relatives and friends who have visited the New Year will send a sweet brown sugar rice cake as a New Year's greeting.

The brown sugar rice cake is a kind of famous folk rice cake in Hainan. It has a history of more than 200 years. If the house rises to the beam, the man and the woman marry, the child is born in the moon, the prostitute is married, and in many cities and counties in Hainan, there is a custom of brown sugar rice cake before New Year's Eve. Hainanese have the habit of eating rice cakes during the New Year. The rice cake is also known as the "year-old rice cake" and is homophonic with the "year-old high". According to Hainan customs, every farmer's lunar month, many farmers have to make rice cakes for the Spring Festival, the average family is making a dozen pounds of rice cakes at a time.