Soup dumplings, also known as floating Yuanzi, Lantern, were first called "floating Yuanzi" because the glutinous rice balls floated and sank when cooked in the pot, and later renamed "floating Yuanzi" as soup dumplings. It is a traditional Chinese custom to eat soup dumplings on the Lantern Festival. So it is also known as Lantern.

Soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting.

Because these glutinous rice dumplings float and sink in the pot, they were first called "floating yuanzi", and later some regions renamed them "floating yuanzi" as "soup dumplings". However, the dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family is better, eating dumplings means a new year of family happiness, reunion, so is the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival essential food. And in some areas of the South, people will also be used to eating soup dumplings instead of dumplings in the Spring Festival.

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Nutritional value of dumplings: sweet dumplings itself has a sweet flavor, so the soup does not need to add sugar to reduce calorie intake; if it is a small dumplings without fillings, the soup can be replaced with sugar cinnamon, sweet wine wine, flower tea, or cinnamon jujube soup, cinnamon and ginger soup, the latter can be a tonic effect of the body to get rid of the cold; salty dumplings can be put on some when cooking, increase fiber. vegetables to increase fiber.

In the face of hot, fragrant dumplings, can not help but want to bite, young and old must pay special attention to eat dumplings remember to slow, small mouth, to avoid dumplings choked throat or trachea. Due to the high amount of "sugar" dumplings, plus sesame, fresh meat, peanuts with "high fat" and "high calorie", be sure to eat a small amount, do not eat too much at once.

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