The reason for birth is that people eat soup made of seven kinds of vegetables when they are alive, which is a good omen. It is said that it can dispel evil and cure diseases.

"Seven kinds of soups", that is, seven different vegetables are cooked into a pot to eat, has a long history. Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, a Beijing official was framed by a traitor and exiled to the south of the Yangtze River. On the seventh day of the first month, he came to a remote wilderness on the Rongjiang River. He felt dizzy and hungry, so he had to pick some wild vegetables on the spot and cook them into miscellaneous vegetable soup to satisfy his hunger.

Seven kinds of soup, also known as seven kinds of vegetables, seven kinds of soup or seven kinds of porridge, are unique traditional eating customs during the Spring Festival in Chaoshan, Minnan and Meizhou. Seven kinds of soup refer to vegetables such as "mustard", "thick mustard", "celery", "garlic", "spring mustard" and "kale" cooked together, which means that "new (celery) spring hair (garlic) is rich (Chinese cabbage) and long (leek) is suitable for everyone (kale).