In our hometown, the dishes at the wedding banquet are not called "nine bowls", but "eight bowls" or "eight big pieces", which are four meats and four vegetables, but they are all steamed in a steamer and are also a kind of steamed vegetables.

Of course, there are also many rural areas where there are "nine bowls" at wedding banquets. In fact, it is the same as the "eight bowls", only with one more dish. Whether it is "eight" or "nine", there is a pun. Eight and nine have very auspicious meanings. Eight is congratulations on getting rich, nine is a long time. Most of them are fiction. There are more than eight or nine dishes at rural wedding banquets, but these are representative.

Some people say that the "eight bowls" of rural people's wedding banquets were born out of the Manchu-Han banquet, but they are not. They have existed for a long time. At that time, Zhao Zilong rewarded soldiers with four meats and four vegetables, but that wasn't called eight bowls. As for eight bowls, it is precisely because people worship the number eight that they have the rhetoric of eight bowls. According to the survey, these eight bowls were shaped in the Tang Dynasty and accepted by the people.

Eight is very auspicious. In the past, rural people sat at the square table, with eight people and sixteen dishes on the table. These sixteen dishes include eight cold dishes and eight hot dishes, of which eight are eight bowls. Four meats and four vegetables are all taken out of the steamer. Many city people have never seen a rural wedding banquet for guests. Steamed vegetables are the kind of makeshift earthen pot stoves. A steamer is placed on a large pot, and it takes many times to stack all the steamed dishes.