The traditional foods eaten in the southern Lantern Festival include glutinous rice balls, fragrant pills, bean noodles, trough soup and Yuanxiao tea. Southerners mainly eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival, which means to pray for the whole family to be round and round. Jiaozi's fillings are mainly fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts and peanuts. Cooking jiaozi is the simplest and healthiest way to eat.

What traditional food do you eat in the southern Lantern Festival?

In Dongguan, in addition to glutinous rice balls, there is also a kind of food that must be eaten during the Lantern Festival, that is, fragrant pills, which are round and have a diameter of about 1 cm, and are made of winter solstice powder formed by soaking glutinous rice for 7 days.

People in Kunming will eat bean noodles at the Lantern Festival, that is, stir-fry beans, grind them, make them into balls and cook them with water. People in Shaanxi and other places will eat Yuanxiao tea on the Lantern Festival, that is, put all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles.

Every year in Taizhou, after watching lanterns, people will eat trough soup. Trough soup is salty and sweet. The trough soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, and it is made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, red dates and longan.