Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lantern Festival and the Spring Lantern Festival, which is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality in China.

New Year's Day is New Year's Day, and China Festival, which is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world, is the first day of the year.

The origin of the custom of eating Yuanxiao is almost dumplings. The origin is as follows.

According to legend, there was a maid-in-waiting named "Yuanxiao" in the palace when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty lived in seclusion for many years, missing her parents and spending all her days in Lacrimosa. Dong Fangshuo, the minister, was determined to help her, so she lied to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Vulcan was ordered by the Jade Emperor to burn Chang 'an on the fifteenth day of the first month. The only way to escape the hardship was to let the "Lantern Festival Girl" make a lot of dumplings that Vulcan loved to eat on the fifteenth day of the first month, and all the subjects decorated them with lanterns. With the help of Emperor Wu, the "Lantern Festival Girl" finally met her family. Since then, the Lantern Festival has been formed.

There are many opinions about the formation of the Lantern Festival custom, but it generally took shape in the Han Dynasty. During the history of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to a god named Taiyi. It is said that Taiyi was a very prominent deity at that time, ranking above the Five Emperors and being indebted to the Han Emperor, so he was greatly worshipped. According to legend, another Han emperor, Emperor Wendi, was also related to the Lantern Festival.

Yuanxiao, also known as Tangyuan, has many nicknames in history, such as "Mian Cocoon, Fenguo, Yuanbao, Soup Cake, and Yuanbujiao", etc. It was not officially named Yuanxiao until the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. Yuanxiao can be divided into two types: stuffed and unfilled. The one without stuffing is small and sweet, with white sugar, longan, sweet-scented osmanthus, diced lotus root and candied fruit as seasoning, also known as "pearl dumplings", and the one with stuffing is big and shaped like walnuts. Yuanxiao in the north is mostly sweet, with white sugar, red bean paste, sesame, hawthorn and fruit, while those in the south are sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian, especially Ningbo Tangyuan and Guiyang Wujia Tangyuan.