What is the meaning of soup dumplings

Spherical food made of glutinous rice flour and other things, mostly with filling, eaten with soup. Some regions are called soup dumplings.

Detailed explanation:

That is, soup dumplings. Ningbo specialty. Twenty Years of Witnessing the Strange Present Situation (《二十年目睹之怪现状》第五十二回)："Di side is a stretcher selling soup dumplings, and the fire is the fire that cooks the soup dumplings." 沙汀《困兽记》二五："The sun has already set, and the dumplings are already on the street." See also " 汤团". A traditional food and famous Chinese snack for Han festivals.　

Origin v:

The soup dumplings [2] originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard, sugar as raw materials, first of all, all kinds of dumplings to black sesame seeds ground into powder, and then lard, sugar successively into the mixture kneaded into a ball to do the filling, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round shape, boiled, eat up the sweet and savory, interesting. Because this kind of glutinous rice ball cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so it was first called "floating yuanzi", and later some areas of the "floating yuanzi" renamed Lantern. Unlike the northerners, the southerners in the morning of the Spring Festival have the traditional custom of gathering the family to sit in the *** into the dumplings