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Soup dumplings, also known as "soup dumplings", are one of the representatives of traditional Han Chinese snacks. At the same time, it is also the most characteristic food of the traditional Chinese festival Lantern Festival, and expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life.

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. It was also a novelty food that emerged in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) at that time, i.e., it was stuffed with black sesame seeds, lard, added a little sugar, and rolled into a round shape with glutinous rice flour on the outside, and when cooked, it tasted sweet, soft and tasty, with a long lasting aftertaste. At the same time, the dumplings symbolize the family reunion, eating dumplings also means that in the new year the family happiness, reunion, so is the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival essential food.

Soup dumplings originated in China during the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novel food, that is, with black sesame, lard, sugar as raw materials, first of all, black sesame 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, cooked, eat sweet and savory.

Sweet dumplings itself has a sweet taste, so the soup does not need to add sugar to reduce calorie intake; if there is no filling small dumplings, soup can be replaced with sugar cinnamon, sweet wine, flower tea or cinnamon red date soup, cinnamon ginger soup, the latter can be a tonic to get rid of the effect of cold; cooking salty dumplings can be put on some vegetables to increase the fiber.