Northern people have the habit of eating dumplings on New Year's Day, and the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese New Year as the first traditional festival after the Spring Festival, so the dumplings are indispensable to the cuisine, and the people of Henan have a "fifteen flat, sixteen round," the custom of the Lantern Festival.

The first day of the first month in the north will generally eat dumplings, Lantern Festival, pickled cabbage stewed vermicelli, noodles, pot stickers, cakes and so on. The most important food in the North on the 15th day of the first month is Yuanxiao and dumplings, and the Yuanxiao in the North is usually put the filling in the glutinous rice flour, and slowly rolled into a round shape.