Tonight the moon is supposed to look the biggest and brightest in all of latest 52 Lantern Festivals.

It also means good business for yuanxiao retailers.

People buy yuanxiao, rice balls with sweet fillins at a Beijing Supermarket on Feb. 8, a day before Lantern Festival.

This year, Daoxiangcun has made more than 2,000 tons of yuanxiao, up 30 percent year-on-year, to meet the demand, the company said. Even an increase in its price from 30 yuan to 36 yuan a kg has failed to deter buyers.

Jiaozi (meat and vegetable dumpling) is a must during Spring Festival and "so is yuanxiao on Lantern Festival", said a woman surnamed Hao, one of the buyers at the store.

Firework vendors, too, were doing brisk business yesterday because Lantern Festival is the last day when people can set off fireworks and firecrackers inside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing.