There are five customs in Taizhou during the Lantern Festival: eating Yuanxiao, celebrating Yuanxiao and solve riddles on the lanterns, setting off fireworks and sending good luck. Sending good luck is a unique custom in some towns and villages in Taizhou. On the Lantern Festival, relatives and friends will send bridge stakes and Guanyin to the newly-married bride to wish your son an early birth. In some places, the bride will be dragged to Baiziqiao, which is also a child-seeking game.

In the past thousand years, the production of Yuanxiao has become more and more exquisite. As far as dough is concerned, there are glutinous rice noodles, sticky sorghum noodles, yellow wheat noodles and corn noodles. The contents of fillings are sweet, salty, vegetarian and everything. There are also so-called sweet-scented osmanthus candy, hawthorn candy, assorted foods, bean paste, sesame seeds, peanuts and so on. Salty with lard meat stuffing, can be fried and fried for Yuanxiao. There is also a spiced Lantern Festival composed of mustard, garlic, leek and ginger, which means hard work and long-term progress.

On the Lantern Festival, every household makes its own Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao, known as "floating Zi Yuan" in ancient times, is a popular folk snack, which tastes both elegant and popular, sweet but not greasy, and is popular all over the country. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, rice porridge or bean porridge was poured with meat and poop soup. However, this kind of food is mainly used for sacrifice, not holiday food.