Why do you eat glutinous rice balls on Lantern Festival? Any allusions?

Because glutinous rice balls symbolize better family reunion, eating glutinous rice balls means family happiness and reunion in the New Year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty in China. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) began to eat a novel food, which used black sesame, lard and sugar as raw materials. First, black sesame seeds are ground into powder, then lard and sugar are put into the mixture and kneaded into balls to make stuffing, and glutinous rice flour is used to knead into circles. When cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious. Because this kind of dumpling cooked in a pot floats and sinks, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was renamed as dumpling.

On the 15th day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, Ningbo Tangyuan, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. This kind of food was originally called "floating Zi Yuan", and later it was called "Tangyuan", also known as Yuanxiao; "Tangyuan" contains sesame seeds, red bean paste, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.