Eat jiaozi on Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, according to the custom and tradition of "fifteen flat and sixteen yuan", jiaozi should be eaten first on the fifteenth day of the first month.
On the sixteenth day of the first month, we will eat Yuanxiao again. The moral is reunion, auspiciousness, and flat and round for another year. Why do you want to eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month and Yuanxiao on the sixteenth? One is related to the laws of the moon's movement, and the other is related to the "oral color" of China people.
Eating glutinous rice dumplings during the Lantern Festival warms the spleen and stomach, and people's breath will become quite smooth, so that the whole body will be hot and play a role in keeping out the cold, especially for those with spleen and stomach deficiency. In addition, glutinous rice also contains protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, nicotinic acid and other rich nutrients, so it can be said that glutinous rice dumplings are warm and strong food.
Yuanxiao was called "Tangyuan" at first, because it floated on the water after boiling, which was beautiful and reminiscent of a bright moon hanging in the clouds. There is a bright moon in the sky, dumplings in a bowl, and every household is round and round, symbolizing reunion and good luck. Therefore, eating Yuanxiao expresses people's love for family reunion.