Eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan", with different ingredients and tastes. It is a traditional folk custom to catch mice on the fifteenth day of the first month. In ancient times, every household raised silkworms, and mice often ate silkworms at night. Therefore, it is a folk custom to feed rice porridge to mice on the fifteenth day of the first month, and it is also a custom in the north. Someone travels on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival".