Eating "Yuanxiao" on the Lantern Festival symbolizes family reunion. In the new year, the whole family is happy and everything goes well, which places people's good wishes for future life. Lantern Festival also includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as viewing lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

Lantern Festival custom:

1, Eat Yuanxiao: Eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a food, "Yuanxiao" has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people.

2. Watching lanterns: The custom of setting off lanterns on Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Chang 'an, the capital city, was already the largest city in the world with a population of one million, and the society was rich.

3. solve riddles on the lanterns: solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a traditional activity of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.