1, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan. On the Lantern Festival, northerners eat Yuanxiao and southerners eat glutinous rice balls, all in order to seek a beautiful meaning of family reunion. Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are made from stuffing, and the main raw material is glutinous rice. The general process is to mix the stuffing, stir it evenly, spread it into large round pieces, cool it and cut it into cubes smaller than table tennis. The stuffing of glutinous rice balls is sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian, and Yuanxiao is mostly sweet, mainly fruit and dried fruit.

2. 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.