The Origin and Legend of Soup Dumplings:

Soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty, during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, as food invented to honor the gods. When the dumplings were cooked, they would float in the water and were called soup dumplings.

Legend has it that once during the Lantern Festival, Mr. Qianlong traveled to the south of the country and got lost in a village, hungry and thirsty, so he knocked on the door of a farmer's house to look for something to eat. Open the door is an old woman, her family is very poor, no ingredients, only some glutinous rice flour and black sesame, with glutinous rice flour wrapped in black sesame ball, cooked in the soup to the Qianlong master to eat.

The Qianlong master ate a lot of appreciation, asked what is this delicious, the old lady look at this thing in the soup ball, said this is the soup dumplings. The second year of the Lantern Festival, the Qianlong master in the palace miss the flavor of the dumplings, let the Imperial Kitchen to do out according to the sample. Later, the practice of soup dumplings from the palace to the people, became a famous snack at the Lantern Festival. This is the origin of soup dumplings.

Soup dumplings legend

The legend says that in the late Spring and Autumn period of King Zhao of Chu once passed through the Yangtze River, saw a lot of white skin and red flesh of the small ball floating in the river, in the water sinking and floating, fishing up and tasted quite tasty, they sent someone to ask Confucius, what is it, Confucius said that this is called the floating fruit, is the omen of revival ah.

The king of Chu Zhao was very happy, so he ordered everyone to use rice flour wrapped in hawthorn to cook floating fruit every Lantern Festival. And floating fruit is the predecessor of soup dumplings. This is the origin of soup dumplings.