What is the holiday called on the day you eat soup dumplings?

The Lantern Festival.

The day of the Lantern Festival is the day when soup dumplings are eaten in the South, and the Lantern Festival is eaten in the North. The traditional way of making dumplings in the south is to mix the glutinous rice flour with water to form a skin and then wrap the filling; in the north, the filling is pinched into a small, even ball, and placed in a basket covered with dry glutinous rice flour and shaken, adding water from time to time to make the filling stick more and more glutinous rice flour until the size of the dumplings is right.

"Lanterns" as a food have a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novelty food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the market treasures a moment to. The flower racks in front of the curtains have no way to travel, no money shall not return."

The 15th day of the first month to eat Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival that is "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube puree, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat can be vegetarian, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not packaged, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, or cook Division or deep-fried, hot fire, reunion.