History: Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty, when Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province,) the rise of a novelty food, that is, with black sesame, lard as a filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet, soft and sticky, a long-lasting taste.

At the same time, soup dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family, eating soup dumplings also means that in the new year, the family is happy, reunion, so it is the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival essential food.

Memory: The soup dumplings symbolize the reunion, good, sends people to the good hope of life.

The Culture of Soup Dumplings

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional custom of the Han Chinese, and it is especially popular in Jiangnan. "Ningbo Tangyuan" is an essential food, a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means "reunion" and "complete". "Round" means "reunion" and "complete", and eating soup dumplings at festival time symbolizes family harmony and good luck, so the soup dumplings are also called "floating yuanzi". Folk have "eaten dumplings a year older," said. Ancient poetry: "Ningbo family pounded rice to do dumplings, contentment and happiness another day."