步步高升

除夕傍晚农家厨房的大灶台里柴火通红、水汽升腾，母亲正在大铁锅里热气腾腾地蒸一笼寓意步步高升的传统糯米红糖年糕。

chú xī bàng wǎn nóng jiā chú fáng de dà zào tái lǐ chái huǒ tōng hóng, shuǐ qì shēng téng, mǔ qīn zhèng zài dà tiě guō lǐ rè qì téng téng dì zhēng yī lóng yù yì bù bù gāo shēng de chuán tǒng nuò mǐ hóng táng nián gāo.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, the fire in the big stove in the farmhouse's kitchen was red and steam was rising. My mother was steaming a traditional glutinous rice brown sugar rice cake in a big iron pot, which symbolizes rising step by step.