On the evening of founding ceremony, more than 600 people attended the first New China State Banquet held in Beijing Hotel, including more than 60 tables. The banquet was later called "the first state banquet of the Chinese people * * * and China". Because the guests attending the banquet come from all over the world and have different tastes, in order to achieve a "balance", the banquet decided to choose Huaiyang cuisine with moderate taste. At that time, Beijing Hotel only had western food, so it invited nine Huaiyang cuisine masters, including Zhu Dianrong, to cook "The First Banquet of the Chinese People * * * and China" from Yuhuatai, a famous Huaiyang cuisine restaurant in Beijing at that time.

There are eight kinds of cold dishes: crispy grilled crucian carp, fried chicken in oil, fried cucumber strips, crystal yaorou, winter bamboo shoots with shrimp seeds, boneless goose web, fragrant jellyfish and drunken shrimp with fermented bean curd. The first course: frankincense laver. Eight kinds of hot dishes: braised shark's fin, four treasures of abalone, braised autumn duck in red, Yangzhou lion's head, braised carp, dry braised prawns, fresh mushroom and cabbage, stewed chicken. There are four kinds of snacks: roasted meat with vegetables, Huaiyang spring rolls, bean paste buns and thousand-layer oil cakes.

At the first banquet of the People's Republic of China, the waiters in the restaurant felt completely different from before. In the past, they served foreigners, senior officials and senior businessmen. They don't know how many French girls, British gentlemen, American tycoons and Japanese soldiers they have met, or how many masters in robes and vests and fake foreign devils waving "sticks" (also known as "civilized sticks" in English), but today they are completely different.

Today, many farmers attending the banquet are as simple as red sorghum, as strong fighters as rocks, and as strong workers as iron towers. They are just like themselves. As an ordinary worker and the most ordinary people, the staff of Beijing Hotel have a sense of intimacy, and they have realized that New China is a new country where the working people are the masters of their own affairs. Also attending the banquet were pilots who were driving Hawk and shouldering the dual tasks of being read and defending founding ceremony. Among them, Comrade Liu Shanben, who was the first to fly an uprising and defected to the liberated areas, and Comrade Xing Haifan, who had made valuable contributions to the construction of the People's Air Force, came to the Beijing Hotel to attend the banquet at the invitation of Commander-in-Chief Zhu.