There is a custom of "four steals" in Sichuan Lantern Festival: "One steals dumplings, two steals greens, three steals eaves lamps and four steals reds." Except for stealing youth to strengthen the body, the rest are all customs of seeking children. Kaixian county has the custom of "scolding". During the Lantern Festival, people move benches to the outdoors, scolding all their usual grievances, and those who are scolded are not allowed to scold back.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao".

Businessmen also call it "Yuanbao"

. Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc. After the stuffing is formed, it is rolled into glutinous rice flour, while the glutinous rice flour is used to make the dumplings into skins first, and then the dumplings are stuffed, which is completely different. Yuanxiao can be meat and vegetarian with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion.

The traditional festivals and customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the broad masses of people in China in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects. In terms of material life, traditional festivals in China have many unique foods in different festivals. On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. The sound of "glutinous rice balls" is similar to that of "reunion", which symbolizes reunion and harmony.