Legend has it that Jingjiang "Crab Roe Soup Buns" were passed down during the Three Kingdoms period. After Liu Bei was orphaned in Baidi City, he died. Mrs. Sun Shangxiang, who was in Eastern Wu, was very sad. Loyal to her love, Mrs. Sun looked at the rolling river and climbed the Beigu Mountain with grief and anger. After paying homage to God and her husband's spirit, she jumped into the Yangtze River. In order to memorialize the loyalty and virtue of Mrs. Sun, the descendants wrapped steamed buns filled with minced pork and crab meat with flour, and went to pay tribute to Mrs. Sun. This meat steamed bread flavor delicious, actually attracted the attention of many gourmets, soon became a popular food on the restaurant table, from the Three Kingdoms from generation to generation to the present, and gradually evolved into today's crab meat soup dumplings. Crab roe soup dumplings to the Ming and Qing dynasties has reached the peak of the production process, the beauty of the reputation spread far and wide.

As for eating soup dumplings, it requires a bit of skill. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong made a fool of himself by eating soup dumplings. He came to Jingjiang to taste the crab roe soup dumplings. Maybe he was hungry, soup buns up, he grabbed a, open mouth to bite, only to see a stream of soup shot straight out, scalding him a hand, soup buns thrown to the back to go, body hands are full of soup. In normal times, he would have been furious, but at the moment he could not care about anger, but quickly lick the soup on the finger, why? Because he just tasted a little bit of soup, fresh. Store fellows look, know that he is the first time to eat soup dumplings, hurry up to point out, Qianlong according to the fellows of the method of a try, really smart. Before leaving, according to Qianlong's old temperament, would like to question some of the verse, but the thought of just out of the foreign face, can not help but some blush, but also embarrassed to question again. Perhaps because of this, Jingjiang soup dumplings, although famous, history books can not be found on the record.