From North China.
Pin · North China (Beijing; name fixed under Ming Yongle) · city
- OriginChina (Ningbo style) · city · Han
- First record
- 1126 · Islamic & Mongol world
- Fold
- Ball
- Cooked
- Boiled
Anatomy
Inside
- Wrapper
- Rice doughRolled dry filling in glutinous rice flour
- Filling
- Sesame, hawthorn, nuts
- Cooked
- Boiled
- Served
- Lantern Festival (15th day of 1st lunar month)
- Size
- About 4 cm across
Not known yet We don’t yet have a written story or a recipe for Yuanxiao. What we do have is below, with its sources.
Range
Where
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How sure we are
Evidence
Fairly sure. A dated text records it by 1126.
The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.
First record Zhou Bida (1126–1204), poem on boiling fuyuanzi at the Lantern Festival, Southern Song (D)
Notes from the research
"Rolled" not "wrapped". Name "yuanxiao" from Ming.
This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §6.1, the project's source report. Its grade, D dated text, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.
History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.
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