The implication of eating jiaozi in Lantern Festival is reunion. Therefore, people will eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, hoping to get a good start. Lantern Festival mainly symbolizes reunion, because people will go home for the New Year, which means reunion and happiness. Eat together, not only hope to make a fortune in the coming year, but also hope that everything will go well and the family will be reunited safely.

The origin of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the formation of Lantern Festival customs has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed Taiyi in Ganquan Palace on the first day of the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the forerunner of offering sacrifices to gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. Historical records show that Han people often went to Xinyi Ganquan on the first day of the first month and ended in the Ming Dynasty.

The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of Lantern Festival customs. During the Yongping period of Emperor Hanming, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered lanterns to be lit in palaces and temples on the fifteenth night of the first month to show the Buddha's nature.

Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the 15th night of the first month was gradually spread in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Lantern Festival gradually became a trend. Liang Wudi believed in Buddhism, and the palace was brightly lit on the fifteenth day of the first month.