The Hakka in Taiwan is a rice-loving people. So it's only natural for their celebration of newborn babies to have something to do with rice. According to tradition, family members would first pray to their ancestors and tutelary deities for the baby's well-being. In the meantime, they would prepare a rice dish: Xing Ding Ban, or Red Ban, in appreciation of the blessings. Then Xing Ding Ban would be shared among friends and relatives to in celebration of the child's birth.

The way the Hakka celebrate childbirth with Xing Ding Ban is analogous to that of other cultures. For example, the canon law of the Catholic Church requires infants be baptized within the first few weeks. In the US, gifts for babies are presented during baby showers to celebrate their recent birth. In a Japanese traditional ceremony named Issho Mochi, parents have their one-year-old children carry a 1.8-kilogram rice cake so that they may have an idea of what life feels like through the cake's weight.