Yuan is also known as "Tangtuan" and "Yuanxiao", and many businessmen call it "Yuanbao".

From the late Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty, glutinous rice balls have become an important festival food during the Lantern Festival.

So, why do we eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival? There is a unique custom across the country to eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Almost every family eats Yuanxiao, which is glutinous rice balls.

Folklore experts believe that when cooking glutinous rice balls, the glutinous rice balls float on the water after the pot is boiled, which is really beautiful and reminds people of a bright moon hanging in the sky.

There is a bright moon in the sky, glutinous rice balls in the bowl, and every household is reunited, which means reunion is auspicious.

Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls expresses people's love for family reunion.

The survey also shows the Chinese people’s inheritance and love for traditional festivals and their love for Chinese culture.

Eating Yuanxiao has a different taste.

Furthermore, the name of glutinous rice balls has a similar pronunciation to the word "tuanyuan", which means reunion and symbolizes the reunion, harmony and happiness of the whole family. At the same time, people also use it to remember their departed relatives and express their beautiful longing for future life.

The origin of the Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. It is one of the traditional festivals of China and overseas Chinese in areas with Chinese characters.

The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

According to records, the Lantern Festival has already appeared around the Han Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was known as the three major traditional Chinese folk festivals along with the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. It has a history of more than 2,000 years.

In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

The custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival probably formed in the Song Dynasty.

According to records, during the Tang Dynasty, people ate "cocoons" on the Lantern Festival that were "round and round".

In the Southern Song Dynasty, "lactose dumplings" appeared, which should be the predecessor of glutinous rice balls.

In the poem "Yuanxiao Boiled Floating Yuanzi" written by Zhou Bida in the Song Dynasty, there is a line of "stars are shining in the dark clouds, beads are floating in the turbid water".

In the Ming Dynasty, there were more names for "Yuanxiao".