1, the practice is different. Yuanxiao is rolled out, the stuffing is cut into small pieces, put in a wicker basket covered with rice flour, and continuously screened and twisted while sprinkling water to form Yuanxiao. Yuanxiao is only sweet. The method of making glutinous rice balls is to add water to glutinous rice, grind the rice with a stone mill, drain the ground glutinous rice flour and refrigerate it for three or four days, then add water to form dough and leave it for several hours to make a shell. ?

2. Different food festivals. Yuanxiao is the festival food of Lantern Festival. Tangyuan is a holiday food for southerners during the Spring Festival, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month and the Lantern Festival. It is also a traditional food for southerners to entertain their families from afar, and its significance is equivalent to that of jiaozi in the north.

Eat yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month. When and where the custom of eating Yuanxiao originated, people have different opinions. It is said that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Zhao and Chu passed the Yangtze River on his way back from the countryside and saw something floating on the river, which was white and yellow, and there was a kind of rouge-red pulp in it, which was very sweet. People didn't know what it was, so Zhao Haoqi sent someone to ask Confucius. Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of the master's revival."

Because this day is the fifteenth day of the first month, on this day in the future, Zhao Haoqi ordered his men to imitate this fruit with flour and cook it with red stuffing made of hawthorn. There is also a saying that Yuanxiao was originally called Tangyuan. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao, who was very good at making dumplings. Since then, the world has been named after this maid-in-waiting. These two legends are not recorded in historical materials, so they are not credible.