The Thousands of Old Banquets began in Kangxi and flourished during the Qianlong period. It was the largest imperial banquet in the Qing palace with the largest number of banquets. In the 52nd year of Kangxi's reign, the first banquet for a thousand people was held in Yangchun Garden. Emperor Xuan Ye wrote a poem titled "The Banquet of Thousands of Old Men", which earned the banquet its name. In the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign, a Thousand Old Man's Banquet was held in the Qianqing Palace. Three thousand people attended the banquet, and they impromptuly selected hundreds of couplets in Bailiang style. In the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, there was another banquet for thousands of old people in the Huangji Hall of Ningshou Palace. There were 3,056 people attending the banquet, and they composed more than 3,000 poems impromptuly. Later generations called the Qiansou Banquet "an unprecedented act of kindness and courtesy."