The Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival, the custom of eating Lantern Festival began in which era?

The custom of eating Lantern Festival began in the Song Dynasty.

Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular in the Lantern Festival to eat a novelty food: in the North and South Dynasties poured with meat and poo soup rice porridge or bean porridge. But this food is mainly used for rituals, not to talk about the festival food. In the Song Dynasty, Zheng Wangzhi's "Catering Records" recorded: "Bianzhong Festival food, on the Yuan oil hammer". The method of making oil hammer, according to "Taiping Guangji" cited "Lu's Miscellany" in a "Shangshi food order" records, similar to the later generation of deep-fried Lantern Festival. It is also known as "oil painting pearl".

The Tang Dynasty's Lantern Festival food was the noodle worm. Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao remains" records: "every year on the first day of the New Year, the custom of man-made face silkworms to the Song Dynasty is still left, but the different festive food is more abundant than the Tang Dynasty". Lv Yuanming's "Miscellany of the Year" mentions: "Beijing people make mung bean flour for Kodou soup, boil glutinous for balls, sugar for meat broth, called round salt and black bean. Twisted head of mixed meat soup, called salt and black bean soup, and such as the day of making silkworms, all on the Yuan Festival food also. To the Southern Song Dynasty, there is the so-called "lactose round" appeared, which is the predecessor of the dumplings.