Most wedding banquets in rural areas are even, not odd, which is a good sign, and most people choose the number eight because it is homophonic and has a special auspicious smell of making a fortune. The average rural wedding banquet will use eight cold dishes, eight hot dishes and sixteen dishes, but some people will also put eight dishes and one soup, and some will cook twelve dishes, that is, twelve months, all of which are good numbers.
Generally, the dishes at wedding banquets are not popular, and the most important thing is to show happiness and auspiciousness. When people hold wedding banquets, they are also particular about how many dishes are placed on the table. Generally, the dishes are even. However, a wedding banquet usually has six or eight cold dishes and six soups. There is a saying in rural wedding banquets that 12 has eight dishes in the evening. Generally speaking, it means yes man, and the wedding banquet also means that the husband and wife get along well for a hundred years.
The names of the dishes on the banquet should also have auspicious meanings. Generally, the first course of a wedding banquet is red meat, which also means that it is booming, which means that the goose is full. Generally, there will be some auspicious dishes in the big stew at the wedding banquet, which generally represents the good meaning of blessing, meaning that the newlyweds are blessed and reunited, and there are red dates and tremella porridge in the banquet, meaning that your son is born at an early date. Steamed steamed buns and steamed buns are even steamed.
What dishes are served at the rural banquet, and steamed buns. Even numbers are also needed when steaming steamed bread. They all think even numbers are auspicious. This custom is not common now. It doesn't matter how much it is steamed. Help yourself.