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The host family would never drive away such "beggars," but would instead welcome them warmly. However, their meal was different from a regular banquet. The host would prepare an Eight Immortals table and serve them eight bowls of rice with toppings.
And so this table, with its eight large bowls, was also known as the "beggar’s feast."
As for "ten large bowls," the word for "ten" is a homophone for "stone." Since farmers in Sichuan Province often used stone troughs to feed their pigs, serving ten bowls was also considered inauspicious.
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