How is the introduction of dumplings introduced?

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

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province), the rise of a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard as a filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eaten sweet, soft, aftertaste. Soup dumplings symbolize the reunion of the family, eating soup dumplings also means that in the new year the whole family is happy, reunion, so it is the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival essential food.

Soup dumplings culture

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional custom of the Han Chinese people, which is especially prevalent in Jiangnan. There is a saying that "a year older than the year you ate the dumplings". Chen Zhiyou's poem "Soup dumplings" says: "Every year at the winter solstice, the family cooks, a year of potential to add know nothing," Ningbo local saying: "Ningbo family pounded rice to do soup dumplings, know enough to be happy another day." Hu Bingyan also has a poem that says: "Fragrant sticky rice made of glutinous rice dumplings, boiling water floating silver rich and salty.

Sweet and smooth in the mouth, the whole family happy drunken days." "Ningbo soup dumplings" is a necessary food, is a kind of round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means "reunion", "complete! "Round" means "reunion" and "complete", and eating dumplings at festival time symbolizes family harmony and good luck, so to dumplings are also called "floating yuanzi".

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, "Ningbo dumplings" as food, in our country has a long history. This food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "dumplings", also known as Lantern; "dumplings" to sesame, bean paste, walnuts, nuts, date paste, etc. for the fillings, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. Soup can be boiled, fried, steamed, with the meaning of reunion.