It is intended to wish the whole family a reunion and harmony, and to express their wish for happiness in the new year. This is a kind of food custom in the Spring Festival. Dumplings are generally eaten in the north during the Spring Festival, and Yuanxiao, rice cakes and noodles are generally eaten in all parts of the south.

in the song dynasty, yuanxiao was called yuanzi, and later it was called tangyuan in the south and yuanxiao in the north. There are different ways to eat Yuanxiao: Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. On the first day of the lunar new year, you eat Yuanxiao, which is boiled and fried. Boiled dumplings are fried into oil piles. Yuanxiao is divided into two kinds from the production, one is solid without stuffing. The other is stuffed, which has five flavors: fragrant, spicy, sour, sweet and salty. It can be eaten with soup, fried and steamed. Sichuanese eat glutinous rice balls, which are usually sweet and contain brown sugar. In recent years, the dumpling stuffing made by Lai Tangyuan, a famous snack in Chengdu, is made of a variety of sweet and delicious stuffing, which breaks the single material of brown sugar as stuffing.