In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was very popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan" and later called "Yuanxiao".

Businessmen also call it "Yuanbao"

. Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", is made of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, which can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Shaanxi jiaozi is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and round.

Moon cakes, also called moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes and reunion cakes, are offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, and use them to come to Yue Bai and give them to relatives and friends. Up to now, eating moon cakes has become a necessary custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. On this day, people eat moon cakes to show "reunion".