Three or five kinds of broken head vegetables, usually three or five kinds of vegetables, fish, meat, soup, two yuan. In ancient times, the third meal eaten by death row inmates before execution was called decapitated meal, and the standard of ancient prison meal was one meat and one vegetable (extremely bad fat and carrion).

One of the privileges of the condemned prisoners before execution is that they can go on the road after eating enough, so the beheading dishes will be much richer than usual.

The origin of decapitated vegetables

The ancients believed that only in sacrificial ceremonies were three bowls of food and three bowls of wine placed, so the living were naturally different from ghosts and gods. The ancients believed that only in the sacrificial ceremony, three bowls of food were placed and three bowls of wine were poured, so people had to behead three bowls of food.

Three bowls are singular and unlucky. Generally, there must be an even number of dishes on the table, such as four bowls, six bowls and ten bowls. In Shaoxing, Zhejiang, "Ten Bowls" has always been regarded as synonymous with wedding banquets. In ancient times, death row inmates ate three courses at the dinner before execution, commonly known as "decapitated meal", also known as "farewell meal" and "farewell meal".