Lantern Festival generally eats Yuanxiao, glutinous rice balls, lettuce, jiaozi, noodles and Yuanxiao tea.

1 yuanxiao

It is an indispensable food for the Lantern Festival. Most people in the north eat Yuanxiao. Its method is very simple, that is, making stuffing according to your own taste, then cutting it into pieces, soaking it in water, and rolling it out in glutinous rice flour, so that Yuanxiao is ready.

2. Tangyuan

On the Lantern Festival, southerners like to eat dumplings, which means round and round, and each dumpling symbolizes round and round. The method of making glutinous rice balls is simpler than Yuanxiao, and almost the same as wrapping jiaozi, that is, glutinous rice flour is added with water to synthesize glutinous rice dough, then pressed into small cakes, filled with appropriate stuffing and kneaded into balls.

3. Lettuce; lettuce

Generally speaking, during the Lantern Festival, Cantonese people like to steal lettuce. It is said that this kind of food represents auspiciousness, so people there will eat lettuce in the Lantern Festival to win a good title.

4. jiaozi

In some places in northern China, we also have the habit of eating jiaozi. As the saying goes, "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". Jiaozi is an auspicious food. Whether it's a holiday or a Chinese New Year, or a festive festival, many places occasionally have the habit of eating jiaozi, so jiaozi is also an indispensable food for the Lantern Festival.

5. Noodles

There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei area of China, "Eat Yuanxiao and look forward to the coming year", so local people will eat a bowl of noodles on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means praying for good luck. Eating noodles with the Lantern Festival symbolizes constant celebration.

6. Lantern Festival tea

In China, Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea. Yuanxiao tea is to put all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, which is very similar to the ancient Yuanxiao porridge. Yuanxiao tea is very nutritious, rich in vitamins and trace elements, not as greasy as Yuanxiao dumplings, and it is a food that people like to eat.