The symbolism of eating soup dumplings on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is reunion.
Businessmen will call the dumplings Yuanbao, which means business is booming. Soup dumplings, also known as Yuanxiao, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, symbolize the full moon in the sky and also signify a family reunion. There is a kind of salty dumplings are made of green onion and garlic, chives, ginger, mustard cabbage called five flavors of dumplings, the symbolism is hard work and long upward.
Significance of Lantern Festival
First of all, eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival is a very important customary activity handed down from ancient times to the present. It is widely spread in the folklore and also loved by all people. Eating dumplings on the 15th day of the first month is like a poem that has been firmly engraved in everyone's heart, in this long history and culture, slowly turned into today's dumplings, which is known as eating "Lantern".
For people, we can choose from a variety of dumpling fillings, dumpling colors and types of dumplings, and hope that everyone can eat hot dumplings on the Lantern Festival.
As we all know, soup dumplings are basically because of their round shape, and "round" represents happiness and reunion. Therefore, eating dumplings on the day of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar implies that the new year is a year of joy for the whole family, reunion, happiness, peace and health, and expresses the people's good wishes for the New Year and a bright vision for the future.