Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country. Tangyuan is also called "dumpling" or "dumpling" or "inner dumpling", and southerners also call it "water dumpling" or "floating dumpling".
On the fifteenth day of the first month, almost every household eats Yuanxiao. In addition, the name of Tangyuan is similar to the pronunciation of "reunion", which means reunion, symbolizing the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness, and people also miss their parting relatives and place their good wishes on their future life.
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In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".
Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion.
In China, the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival include the "solve riddles on the lanterns". People will write some brain teasers and other questions on paper, then hang each question on the roof with thin lines, and then let people guess.
Buddhism has the custom of lighting lamps to offer sacrifices to the Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month. In Taoism, Shangyuan Festival is regarded as the birthday of the heavenly emperor (Yao), with Shangyuan on the 15th day of the first month, Zhongyuan on the 15th of July and Xiayuan on the 15th of October, respectively, which belong to the three emperors of heaven, earth and water. Shangyuan Festival is the birthday of Tianguan, so lights are lit to celebrate. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court formally worshipped.
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