1, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty, Mingzhou rise of novelty food, at that time, is made of black sesame, lard as a filling, add a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked sweet and savory, interesting. Soup dumplings symbolize reunion, good, send people's hopes for a better life.

2, according to legend, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, on the 15th day of the first month, King Zhao of Chu passed through the Yangtze River, saw the white sweet with filling, then Confucius said, this thing is white inside red, is the omen of revival. King Zhao of Chu was delighted, and then every year on the first day of the first month of the fifteenth, ordered his subjects to imitate this food to eat, and since then there has been the custom of eating dumplings at the Lantern Festival.

3, soup dumplings after the pot floating in the water, reminiscent of the bright moon hanging in the sky. The moon in the sky and the soup dumplings in the bowl symbolize the reunion.

4, the main ingredient of the dumplings is glutinous rice, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature, which can replenish the human body's qi and blood, nourish the spleen and stomach, and keep warm from the cold.