Soup dumplings signify family reunion and symbolize celebration.

Generally, soup dumplings have fillings, and people cook them and eat them with soup. Because this glutinous rice ball cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so the origin of the soup dumplings was first called floating Yuanzi, and later some regions of the floating Yuanzi renamed Lantern. Tangyuan was then Mingzhou, now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, the rise of famous snacks, but also one of China's representative snacks.

The name of soup dumplings is similar to the word "reunion", so it has the meaning of reunion. Soup dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family, eating dumplings means that in the new year, the family is happy, reunion, but also expresses the people's aspirations and expectations for a happy life.

Soup dumplings

Soup dumplings, also known as "soup dumplings", is one of the representatives of the traditional Han Chinese snacks. At the same time, it is also the most characteristic food of Chinese traditional festival Lantern Festival, which also expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life. According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty, when a novelty food sprung up in Mingzhou, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard as filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round shape, after cooking, eat sweet and soft, with a long aftertaste.

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional Han Chinese custom, especially prevalent in Jiangnan. There is a saying that "a year older after eating soup dumplings". Chen Zhi year-old "soup dumplings" poem: winter solstice every year, family cooking, a year of potential add know nothing, Ningbo local saying: Ningbo family pounded rice to make soup dumplings, contentment and happiness and a day. Hu Bingyan also has a poem that says: aroma of glutinous rice to do dumplings, boiling water floating silver rich and salty. The entrance is sweet and smooth, and the whole family is happy and drunk.