You can't fry three dishes. Now when you go to a restaurant for dinner, some people follow the habit of "three dishes are forbidden". Why is "three dishes" so taboo? It turns out that this has something to do with China's sacrificial ceremony. When offering sacrifices to ancestors or gods, the offerings are all "three three", three incense, three dishes, three bowls of rice, three snacks and three glasses of wine, and even the worship ceremony is all three kowtows and three bows. "Three dishes" are "immortal dishes" for ancestor worship and god worship. So it is impossible to put only three dishes on the wine table for the living to eat and drink.

In addition, in some places, in order to catch a happy event, the host family also sent beggars to set up a small square table at the gate, and the food was only third-class. Therefore, entertaining guests with "three courses" is suspected of giving alms to beggars.