You can eat dumplings, dumplings in soup, Lantern, bean dough, noodles and other foods at noon on the Lantern Festival.

There is no general rule about the food you eat at noon on the Lantern Festival, except that people mostly eat dumplings, Yuanxiao or soup dumplings on this day. It is a symbol of the festival, but also a good luck, meaning that the family reunion and happiness. In the beginning of the formation of the Lantern Festival, the folk commonly eaten is the Lantern, Lantern is one of the traditional snacks, and the difference between the dumplings and different fillings, different practices.

Yuanxiao is rolled out with filling, and soup dumplings are wrapped. With the development of the times, people in the northern region will eat dumplings at noon, in addition to the Lantern Festival, some will eat dumplings, because the dumplings are shaped like a Yuanbao symbolizing attraction of wealth.

Introduction to the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, Yuanxi or the Festival of Lights, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon night of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

The Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. The Lantern Festival is mainly characterized by a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, eating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places also added a dragon lantern, lion dance, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other traditional folk performances. 2008 June, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.