People eat rice balls every winter solstice, which means will be growing one year older and preparing for the new year. Until people eat Yuanxian Tangyuan and celebrate Yuanxian Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month of lunar calendar, which means family got reunion and the end of the new year vacation.

Another tradition is to eat Tanyuan at the time of marriage or engagement, wishing the couple a happy marriage and early pregnancy.