On the seventh day of the first month of the first month, there is a local custom of eating seven dishes. Legend has it that the seventh day of the first month is a person's birthday. It is said that Nu Wa started the world, being a chicken on the first day, a dog on the second day, a pig on the third day, a sheep on the fourth day, a cow on the fifth day, a horse on the sixth day, and a person on the seventh day. Therefore, it is called Human Day. People must eat a cake made of seven kinds of vegetables every day, and then eat seven kinds of vegetables directly without making those cakes. In Chaoshan area, seven kinds of dishes are cooked in a pot and eaten at noon, which is called "seven kinds of soup". These seven dishes are generally radish, thick cabbage, onion, garlic, leek, celery and spring vegetables. Because the radish is "innocent"; Leek, commonly known as a long dish, takes the same "rejuvenation" as spring vegetables; Onions are "smart"; Celery takes diligence; Garlic and thick combination "everything is cost-effective". Before eating, the elders always say: the family is clean and white, the new year is rejuvenated, smart and hardworking, everything is cost-effective, and everything is unscrupulous.
The traditional "People's Day" dishes are called "seven dishes". "Seven kinds of vegetables", as the name implies, refers to seven kinds of vegetables, five of which are generally fixed: celery, garlic, onion, coriander (coriander) and leek. The homonym "Qin" of celery is "diligence"; Garlic homophonic "calculation"; Onion homophonic "Cong"; Coriander's "coriander" is homophonic "edge"; The homonym of leek is "Jiujiu". When these five kinds of dishes are combined together, the taste is second, mainly for the good luck of the New Year. The other two are flexibly matched according to local customs and tastes. In some places, fish and meat are used instead. Fish means "more than every year", eating meat means a rich life, and even fruits can be used instead. It is said that after eating "seven dishes", you can collect gold and silver hair in that year.