Generally speaking, plates with eight bowls of water are mainly used by ordinary people to do white things, that is, to reward relatives and friends when people die.

Eight bowls of water is a special food in zhijin county, Bijie City. As the name implies, there are eight kinds of soup dishes. In Zhijin, every red and white banquet has eight bowls of water, which is the most traditional banquet with local customs. In fact, eight bowls of zhijinshui mainly use local black pork, native chicken, eggs, coix seed, bamboo shoots, game delicacies and so on.