"Eight bowls" is the folk cook's jargon, referring to the hard dish set format, the seat of the core dishes, generally eight, with a bowl, so called "eight bowls".

The content of the tabletop dishes do not have a certain rule, according to the seasonal ingredients, family circumstances and the nature of the feast, as it is, but sixteen dishes can not be changed, is the standard . Only the order of dishes have to pay attention to, the most important is the first hot stir-fry, marking the nature of the feast, whether it is a happy event or a sad event. If it is a "white matter", the first is fried chicken, "red matter" is fish. After the hot stir-fry on the steamed bread or snacks, as the main course. Then there are eight bowls, the main character appeared.

Local products and eating habits, determines the content of the hard food, chicken, duck, fish and meat, stewed fried and steamed, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy each different, but the format is basically the same, there are "eight bowls" style. Here to share the letter Yanggangshan folk feast eight bowls.

Eight bowls. Eight bowls of stewed vegetables, steamed vegetables and soup composition, the general format for the "three steam, four stews and soup". Steamed rice flour meat, steamed oh fried chicken, steamed fish; stewed beef, stewed pork belly, stewed chicken, stewed pig's feet; the last egg soup. There are dozens of recipes to choose from for both stewed and steamed dishes.

Xinyang counties in rural counties, people have something at home, but also at home to do the dishes set up a banquet to invite friends and relatives. Banquet is mainly divided into red, white two types, "red" including marriage, housewarming, high rise to celebrate life, high school hits, all worthy of celebrating the happy event; "white" is the death of someone in the family, there are also different, there are happy and sad in the white. The death of an old man over 80 years old is called "old happy funeral", and the white event is treated as a red event. There are old people recovering from illness and other important members of the family recovered from a serious illness, to set up a happy feast to thank friends and relatives who visited the sick.