The origin of the seven kinds of soups is that a Beijing official was framed by traitors in the Song Dynasty. Being banished to the south of the Yangtze River, on the seventh day of the first month, he came to a remote wilderness near Rongjiang River. He felt dizzy and hungry, so he had to pick some wild vegetables on the spot and cook them into mixed vegetable soup to satisfy his hunger. Just after eating, he felt bright at the moment and full of energy. Later, the official was reinstated and promoted. He recalled that he had tasted seven kinds of life-saving wild vegetables in Jiangnan, so he asked his family to randomly pick seven different wild vegetables on the seventh day of the first month of each year.

Seven kinds of soup

Seven kinds of soups, also known as seven kinds of vegetables, seven kinds of soups or seven kinds of porridge, are unique traditional eating customs in Chaoshan and Minnan areas during the Spring Festival. The seven kinds of soup are boiled together with vegetables such as mustard, thick mustard, celery, garlic, spring vegetables, leeks and kale, which means that "new celery makes garlic rich in spring, and leeks and kale have been mixed for a long time."

Seven soups is a unique dietary custom of people in Chaoshan area. At that time, people rushed to imitate and eat "seven kinds of soups" to show their hope for the new year. Chen Xiangyin said that the eating custom of "seven kinds of soups" has been passed down to this day. The eating custom of "Seven Soups" is very interesting. First of all, in the choice of vegetable varieties, it should mean good luck and prosperity.