From the traditional Chinese concept of the meaning of the word "four", there are "four red, four happy", "four flat, eight stable", "four guests", "four generations together", "four happy life", "four seasons of wealth" and other auspicious symbols. Therefore, the name of "Four Four Seats" naturally allows people to fully develop their associations and extend the numerical meanings of dishes and utensils with social concepts. In terms of numerology alone, eight people dining, "four four" regulation is just right, less one is not enough, more one is more.

Such as banquets for important guests, but also equipped with four tables, four dried fruit, four fresh fruit, four candied fruit, four snacks for the "pre-seat" ritual, not only to show respect for the guests, but also in line with the requirements of the host and guests do not make the host of the health of an empty stomach drinking. Between the seats to leave two empty seats for the toast at any time into the toast, called "open seat" (less one for the "gap seat", more than one for the "corner seat"), to show that the guest of honor The "open mouth seat" (one less for the "gap seat" and one more for the "hanging corner seat"), to show the hospitality of the grand and etiquette of the whole.

"Four Four Seats" is not only a simple dining culture, but also along with the continuous progress and development of the times, in the fusion of local slang on the basis of the culture of wine, filial piety culture, etiquette culture, wedding culture, the culture of teachers, culinary culture, and other rich content. The traditional rules of etiquette, such as "seniority and respect for the young", "order of hosts and guests", "drying up first as a toast", "leaving the seat to toast", etc., are binding, as well as the traditional rules and regulations of diners at the table. Constraints, as well as diners during the poetry urge to drink, Xunxie reward and answer the scene of the reconciliation, more so that the "four four seats" in the Yanle dining process less vulgar, more elegant.