You can add coriander, laver, chopped green onion and other accessories to the cooked jiaozi. Tangyuan symbolizes better family reunion, and eating it means family happiness and reunion in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. In some areas in the south, people will also get used to eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival instead of jiaozi.

Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and Piao Zi Yuan, is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival with a long history.

With some spicy dishes, protect the spleen and stomach. Tangyuan has a particularly high sugar content, and too sweet food will affect the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine says "be willing to enter the spleen". Sweet food, such as glutinous rice balls, has a "slow lag" effect. Proper intake can bring energy to the stomach and help digest and absorb the food eaten in the stomach, but eating too much will slow down gastrointestinal peristalsis, leading to hiccups, flatulence, diarrhea, loss of appetite, indigestion and other digestive tract symptoms.