1. Eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival was first seen in Song Bida, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. There is a record in the book that "Yuanxiao is rich in cooking, but it seems that it has never been given before". The floating ring in Song Dynasty was also called Tangtuan. By the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only lactose pills, yam pills, pearl pills, sand pills, kumquat pills, pink water pills, glutinous rice balls and so on.

Noodles are the food for Lantern Festival dinner. In ancient times, there was a folk saying, "Put the Lantern Festival, put down the lamp surface, and look forward to next year after eating." This eating custom is very popular in the north of the Yangtze River. "Annals of the Emblem" states: "On the 18th day of the first month, the lights go out and people spit on their faces. As the saying goes,' when the light is on, it goes out', and everyone celebrates. " Eating noodles with lights out symbolizes continuous celebration.

3. Sticky cakes are also called rice cakes. Besides Yuanxiao and noodles, some people eat sticky cakes on the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Diet Therapy, "autotrophic rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, clearing heat and benefiting qi." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes during the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty.