The Festival of Lanterns is the most important festival celebrated after the Chinese New Year, at that time, people can put up lanterns, have to eat a Chinese dessert called Tangyuan which is beautifully tasty and very much loved by the people.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. People eat different food. The rice glue balls, which are eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, or the Lantern Festival, are the last items for the spring festival. On the lantern festival, it is said that every household eats glutinous rice dumplings. People in the north and south call it differently and make it in different ways.
In north, people make it by roll. The fillings are made with grounded sesame, peanuts or bean paste, mixed with sugar. The fillings are then dipped with water and rolled in the glutinous rice flour until it is big enough. Most people are busy now. So they normally buy it instead of making it themselves. Street hawkers make it. But the rice glue balls sold by some famous long-standing stores, are warmly welcome.When people buy rice glue balls, it is better to go to big supermarket, choose rice glue balls of famous brand with QS certificate on the package.
Source: Cultural China