Soup dumplings.?

Floating Yuanzi is soup dumplings, it is China's traditional festival of the Lantern Festival is the most characteristic of a delicacy, in the south of the Yangtze River is very prevalent, the folk also ate soup dumplings a year older, the custom of eating soup dumplings on the 15th day of the first month of the New Year can be said to be a long time ago, and it's not just a kind of gourmet food, but also a symbol of reunion and consummation, as well as family harmony.

The Origin of Soup Dumplings

Soup dumplings originated in China during the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, sugar as raw materials, first of all, the black sesame seeds ground into powder, and then lard, sugar successively put into the mixture kneaded into a ball to make a filling, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round shape, boiled, and eaten sweet and savory.

Soup dumplings in the Song Dynasty is very precious, Jiang Baishi once wrote in a poem "your guests hooked curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to come, curtains in front of the flower rack five lines of road, not money refused to return." The treasures in the poem refer to the soup dumplings.