Steamed cakes have a long history of hundreds of years in Jiading. Every year during the Spring Festival and Double Ninth Festival, people steam cakes. It is a widely spread and common custom among the people. During the Spring Festival, the whole family tastes steamed cakes. Because of its round shape, it symbolizes reunion, which means that eating it will make you taller every year and express joy. The Double Ninth Festival steamed cakes, also known as "supporting cakes", are mainly presented by the younger generation to the elders. After eating them, the elders will be strong and healthy, which shows filial piety. Later, it became a custom and has been passed down to this day. In the countryside, people also cut the cakes into small pieces and dry them in the sun to make "hard cakes", which are then steamed again when guests come to entertain them. Xuxing steamed cakes have the characteristics of the food culture of the Jiangnan water village. They are made through seven steps: soaking rice, washing rice, grinding rice, sifting flour, mixing sugar water, stirring flour, and steaming cakes. Due to the use of brown sugar and white sugar, it is divided into two categories: brown sugar cake and white sugar cake. Among them, white sugar cake can be supplemented with walnuts, red dates, peanuts, raisins, pine nuts, winter melon candy, red and green silk, etc. according to people's tastes and preferences, resulting in different types and flavors of cakes. Due to the reasonable combination of glutinous rice and polished rice, fine auxiliary materials, and pure manual processing, each production link must be mastered just right in terms of time and skills to ensure the original flavor of the steamed cake, making it sweet and light, and taste sweet and refreshing, glutinous and fragrant, and chewy and non-sticky. Suitable for all ages, suitable for the taste of the Jiangnan public, it can be used as a snack or a staple food. Xuxing steamed cake is a well-known specialty food in Jiading area.