Eating dumplings at Lantern Festival, when did dumplings originate?

The custom of eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival was formed in the Song Dynasty. According to records, during the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival to eat "face cocoon" "round without falling corner". To the Southern Song Dynasty, there is "lactose round", which should be the predecessor of the dumplings. Song Dynasty Zhou Bidai wrote the poem "Lantern Festival Cooking Floating Dumplings", which contains the poem "Star in dark clouds, beads floating in cloudy water". In the Ming Dynasty, there were more names for "Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, the formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the 15th day of the first month of the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the first month of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "on the night of the first month of the Xin," in the Ganquan Palace to worship the "Taichi" activities, was regarded by later generations as the first day of the first month. The activities of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the first month of the year "on the night of Xin" in Ganquan Palace to sacrifice to "Taiyi" were regarded as the precursor of the first fifteenth day of the first month of the year to sacrifice to the God of Heaven by the descendants ("Records of the Grand Historian - Book of Music": "The Han family often used the first month of the year on the Xin to worship the Taiyi Ganquan, and the worship was performed at night at the time of twilight, and ended at the end of the day.) The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty was an important impetus to the formation of the Lantern Festival customs.

During the Yongping period of Emperor Mingdi of the Han Dynasty, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Mingdi of the Han Dynasty ordered that on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, "lanterns be lit to show the Buddha's face" in palaces and monasteries. Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the 15th night of the first lunar month gradually expanded in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the later addition of Taoist culture. North and South Dynasties, the Lantern Lantern gradually become a trend.

Soup dumplings, also known as "Lantern Festival", "dumplings", "floating yuanzi", is one of the representatives of the traditional Chinese snacks, is made of glutinous rice flour and other ball-shaped food. It is a ball-shaped food made of glutinous rice flour, etc. It is usually stuffed with fillings and cooked with soup. It is also the most characteristic food of Lantern Festival with a very long history.

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting. Because this glutinous rice dumplings cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so it was first called "floating Yuanzi", and then some areas of the "floating Yuanzi" renamed dumplings.