Soup dumplings are one of the famous snacks in Ningbo, and also one of the representative snacks in China, with a very long history. According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the rise of eating a Ningbo soup dumplings a novelty food, that is, with a variety of fruit bait as a filling, the outside with glutinous rice flour rolled into a ball, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting. Because this glutinous rice ball cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so it was first called "floating Yuanzi", and later some areas to "floating Yuanzi" renamed Lantern. Unlike northern people, Ningbo people in the morning of the Spring Festival have a family get together to sit **** into the traditional custom of dumplings.