Rice cake soup is a representative food of the Lunar New Year, and since ancient times, the Lunar New Year has originated from cooking clean white rice cakes, which means that everything in heaven and earth should be solemn and clean, and the rice cake soup eaten on this day is called "cheomsebyeong." In Dongguk Seesigi, rice cake soup is written as "Baektang" or "Byeongtang," which means that it is called "Baektang" because it has a white appearance, and it is called "Byeongtang" because it is boiled with rice cake. [The meaning of white rice cake soup] White also means "nothing" and it also means "start." It also means to wash the old dirt and be as clean as white. Yeolyangsegi, which introduced the customs of Seoul in the Joseon Dynasty, says that white rice cakes are "a food that is boiled in broth by grinding good non-glutinous rice, steaming white powder, placing it on the inside, and hitting it with a bag-mounted rice cake." [The reason why they cut the rice cake into a circl