There is an old saying that food is the most important thing for the people. In thousands of years' history, food culture has a long history and is everywhere, running through the history of China. There are still many exquisite foods. For example, I told you an old saying today, nine for birthdays, eight for weddings and seven for funerals. Some people don't quite understand when they hear this. Eating is eating. How can I combine it with numbers? What is 789?

"Eat nine at a birthday party" means that there are usually nine dishes at a birthday party. Why "nine"? "Jiuhe" and "Jiujiu" are homonyms with a long meaning. There is a saying in the countryside that "men are full of sex and women are full of sex", which means that men generally live to 69 or 79 years old and women are 70 years old. Therefore, there is a saying in life that "over nine does not exceed ten".

A wedding banquet is a banquet held by newlyweds when they get married. It is naturally a beautiful blessing to the newlyweds, so many things should be paired, because even numbers themselves represent beauty, and 8 is the most auspicious number of even numbers, which has been regarded as the meaning of hair since ancient times and is a very good sign. Therefore, on the wedding day, the banquet was centered around eight dishes, eight dishes, one soup and eighteen dishes, so that eight brought the best wishes to the newlyweds and hoped that the newlyweds would get rich as soon as possible.

The so-called funeral banquet seven actually does not simply mean eating a funeral banquet. Rural people's sensitivity to the number seven has been handed down from ancient times. There are seven days of silence after death, and there are seven days, seven days, seven days, seven days, four days and seven days after death, which is to commemorate every seven days. As such an important memorial funeral, it naturally has something to do with the Seventh National Congress.

The "nine" in this sentence has a good will to respect the elderly and wish them a long life; "Eight" means wishing the newlyweds happiness in pairs; The expression of "seven" has a deep sorrow for the deceased. To put it bluntly, these "numbers" have no practical significance and cannot change the final direction of things. They are just a kind of psychological comfort that people seek and a yearning for a better life. Let's do as the Romans do.