What festival is it to eat glutinous rice balls?

Eating glutinous rice balls is usually on the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan is a kind of food for the people of the whole country and an indispensable food for every household. No matter you are a city dweller or a country dweller, you should eat it as long as it is on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival and one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which existed as early as 2,000 years ago in the Qin Dynasty. According to data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is on the full moon night. The activity of offering sacrifices to "Taiyi" (Taiyi: the God in charge of all things in the universe) in Ganquan Palace is regarded by later generations as the first sacrifice to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.