Tianjin belongs to the northern region, and the traditional dietary custom in the north is to eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means auspicious reunion and rolling financial resources.

People in Tianjin usually eat Yuanxiao, with sesame seeds, peanuts or hawthorn as stuffing, cut into cubes, poured into baskets, rolled up with glutinous rice flour and shaken. Every region in the north will have its own unique dietary customs, and almost every kind of food has pinned their good expectations for life in the new year. The practice of Yuanxiao is mainly stuffing. 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. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour and "sieve" it. As the fillings collide with each other and become spherical, glutinous rice also sticks to the surface of the fillings, forming Yuanxiao.