1, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan. On the Lantern Festival, northerners eat Yuanxiao and southerners eat glutinous rice balls, all in order to seek the beautiful meaning of family reunion. The stuffing of glutinous rice balls is sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian, and Yuanxiao is mostly sweet, mainly fruit and dried fruit.

2. noodles. There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei, which is called "Shangyuan Festival, save noodles, and look forward to next year after eating." Local people eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds unrelated to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. Eating noodles with lights out symbolizes continuous celebration.

3. Bad soup. Taizhou area eats rotten soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year. Stir-fry the soup with shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh duck, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board, spinach, etc. Add a little rice flour and cook it into a salty paste. The rotten soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, candied dates and longan.