Jiudajian is one of the traditional Hakka banquets in Guangdong during the Spring Festival, which is popular in Guangdong Province, especially in the Pearl River Delta. "Gui" (pronounced as "ghost") was originally a round vessel for holding millet and millet in ancient sacrifices. Its shape was square or round, and its materials were divided into wood, bamboo, pottery and copper. It was originally a food vessel or sacrificial vessel for ancient nobles, and later it gradually spread to the people, so there are nine kinds of Gui among the people in Guangdong.
Every dish in Jiuda Gui uses the best materials, but there is no beef, because cows can help farmers plow the fields. Hakkas call the nine big bamboo poles nine sub-discs, which means "nine sons get into the department" and "a long time". If people eat today, they can fill up the "nine big baskets" for more than 100 people to enjoy. From this, we can see that the "Nine Big Handicaps" are extremely boasting about the richness of their meals and the high specifications of their banquets.
The types of nine big baskets
In the past, the "nine baskets" were similar to the eight dishes and one soup we often say now, but we used to drink the old fire soup. Why is the ninth dish corn soup? The reason is that in the past, there were "nine baskets" to eat, which were all festive events. There were many people attending the banquet, and it took too long to cook the old fire soup, which was unrealistic, so it was more appropriate to have a piece of soup.
In different places, the nine dishes of the nine baskets are also different. The nine baskets in Yuen Long, Hong Kong are: Mountain Chicken, Braised Bun by Famous Chef, Shrimp with Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Douchi, Rice Duck with Noodle Sauce, Nostoc flagelliforme, Fish Ball, Dried Monopterus Domesticus Radish, Sweet and Sour Meat Ball, Braised Flour with Squid and Oyster Oil. The nine largest bamboo rafts in Zhuhai are: stewed mushrooms with dried shrimps, stewed ducks with pigskin glue, stewed flowers with bamboo shoots in south milk, boiled chicken, stewed Chinese cabbage with firewood, fried chicken offal with double squid with Dutch beans, stewed sea clams with garlic, braised pork pot and braised pork.