On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls. It's easier to make dumplings. Generally, glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make skin, and then "wrapped" stuffing.

Cantonese people like to pick lettuce and mix cakes for cooking during the Lantern Festival. It is said that this kind of food represents good luck. Lettuce, whose name is homophonic with "making money", is most commonly used in festivals such as the opening of new stores.

Sticky cakes are also called rice cakes. Besides Yuanxiao and noodles, some people eat sticky cakes on the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "What is the best way to prepare for emergencies?" The Diet Prescription contains "self-cultivation, innocuity, slight cold, non-toxic, heat-clearing and qi-benefiting."

Lantern Festival, like Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival in China. In fact, its cultural connotation and social value far exceed other festivals, and it has extraordinary significance.