1, different distribution areas: most areas in the north, people call it Yuanxiao; On the contrary, in the south, many people call it Tangyuan. This regional difference is a bit like the difference between wonton in the north and wonton in the south and wonton in Guangdong and Guangxi.

2. Different raw materials: First, the skins of the two brothers are made of glutinous rice, but the skins of Yuanxiao are made of dried glutinous rice flour, while the skins of glutinous rice balls are made of glutinous rice flour, so the water content of Yuanxiao is much less than that of glutinous rice balls.

3. Different fillings: Yuanxiao was originally composed of assorted fillings and jujube paste fillings. Assorted stuffing is a mixture of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel and nuts, which looks like the five-kernel stuffing in moon cakes that we often eat. The earliest dumplings were mainly black sesame, red bean paste, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste.

However, with the development of society, people's tastes have become more and more critical. In order to cater to most people's curiosity about fresh food, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan also broke the shackles of traditional fillings.