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Talk about the cultural history of soup dumplings

Soup dumplings - dietary origins

According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Mingzhou (now Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, glutinous rice flour black sesame city) the rise of a new food, that is, with black sesame, lard as a filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour lard white sugar rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet, soft and sticky, aftertaste.

Soup dumplings - food culture

Eating soup dumplings is a traditional custom of the Han Chinese, and it is especially popular in Jiangnan. There is a saying that "a year older after eating soup dumplings".

Chen Zhiyou's poem "Soup Dumplings" reads, "Every year at the winter solstice, every family cooks, and a year of potential add know nothing"; Ningbo's proverbial "Ningbo family pounded rice to make soup dumplings, contentedness and happiness again." Hu Bingyan also has a poem that says: "The aroma of glutinous rice to do dumplings, boiling water floating silver rich and salty. The entrance is sweet and smooth, and the whole family is happy and drunk."

"Ningbo soup dumplings" is a necessary food, is a kind of glutinous rice flour made of round dessert, "round" means "reunion" "complete", festival time to eat dumplings, a symbol of family harmony, good fortune, so to Tangyuan is also called "floating yuanzi".

Soup dumplings-historical predecessors

On the origin of soup dumplings, in fact, can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The Huainanzi has a record: "Chu people cook soup, Wu people who tang soup. White rice and yellow rice as a paste, and evenly, and then combined cooked, because the name 'round'. This food can be eaten for a long time without getting tired, beautifully called 'soup dumplings'."

The custom of eating soup dumplings was introduced in Liang of the Southern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. And in the "things Jiyuan" wrote: South Qi Liang Wu Di in the winter ate a sweet: "reunion stuffing", which for the future of the north and south of the people around each other to think of eating soup dumplings to lay the foundation." Reunion" is a blessing for celebrating reunion in traditional Chinese festivals. In the book "yuan day" said: "yuan day to lard wrapped in black bean flour for the ball, to the oil, called the filling; and brown sugar into it, called the soup dumplings."

Soup dumplings-alias

The main aliases of soup dumplings are floating Yuanzi, Lanterns, water rounds, soup pills, Yuanbao, lactose rounds and so on. Because it is mainly eaten during the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, it is also called Lantern, and because of its round and full appearance, there are many aliases with the word "round", and because of regional differences and people's different dietary customs, soup dumplings have given rise to a variety of other different names.

Soup Dumplings - Ancient Poetry

Yuanxi, Kyoto (Yuan) Yuan Haoqian

We meet everywhere, and the six streets are filled with lights, and the children are in an uproar.

What is the purpose of the long shirt, but it is also in the laughter of the tourists.

The Lantern Festival (Yuan) lost its name

Love the Lantern Festival three or five scenery, moonlight, lights brilliant. The moon is full of ice wheels, the lights burn the land and sea, and people step on the spring sun. The three beautiful things can be better appreciated, four no love can hate hard to grow. I am afraid of the dark glow of the lights, people quiet and desolate, the corner of the South Tower, the moon under the West Wing.

Bianjing Yuanxi (Ming) Li Mengyang

Zhongshan Ruzi leaned on the new make-up, Zheng female Yan Ji unique field.

Singing the spring music of King Xian, the moon is like frost outside the Jinliang Bridge.