Even though there's been a death in the family, people still use cakes that signify auspiciousness, because they are hoping their luck will be better in the future. "Speaking lucidly about a subject she knows intimately, Chen explains why people make offerings of rice cakes after a death: The rice has to be ground with stone, which, she says," symbolizes coming anew to the beginning. "
因為制粿需用石磨磨米，「有重新來過之意。」