It is the custom of Lantern Festival. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food became popular in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province). This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".

Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow osmanthus, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and round.

Inheritance and development

"Sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing is wrapped in walnuts, and the rice is like a pearl well water. See that Ma's family is good at dropping powder, and try to sell Yuanxiao in the wind. " This poem Fu Zeng's "Poems on Bamboo Branches in Shangyuan" in Qing Dynasty reflects the habit of eating Lantern Festival in Beijing long ago, and at that time, there was already a font name famous for selling Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is coming on the fifteenth day of the first month. Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. In China, the custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival, which was left over from the Tang Dynasty, has been circulating among the people.

On the Lantern Festival, restaurants and pastry shops in Beijing and even stalls are set up on both sides of the road to sell Lantern Festival. Every household eats a steaming bowl of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. How people miss the customs left by our ancestors!