“七样羹”是潮汕地区一体化区民间颇具特色的一种食俗。“七样羹”即由7个不同品种的蔬菜煮成一锅吃，是指大（芥）菜、厚合、芹菜、蒜、春菜、韭菜、芥兰等同煮。每种蔬菜都有美好寓意：大（芥）菜意喻发大财，厚合是合家平安，芹菜是勤快、勤劳致富，青蒜表示会算数、有钱藏，春菜代表春回大地，韭菜象征长长久久……作为潮汕地区民间食俗，由来己久。
相传，宋朝有一京官遭到奸臣陷害，被贬江南。正月初七这天，他来到榕江边一个偏僻荒野，顿觉头晕眼花，饥饿难忍，只好就地采摘了几样野菜，煮成杂菜汤聊以充饥，刚吃完，顿觉眼睛明亮，浑身有了力气，后来该官员复职高升，忆起当年在江南尝过的救命野菜共有七种，于是让家人每年正月初七务必随便取七样不同的蔬菜，煮成“七样羹”而食。
"Seven kinds of vegetable" is a folk custom in Chaoshan area ."Seven kinds of vegetable" that is cooked from seven different varieties of vegetables into a pot, refers to the large (mustard), thick together, celery, garlic, spring vegetables, leeks, broccoli and other cooking. Each vegetable has a good moral: large (mustard) dish means make large fortune, Houhe means family safely, celery means diligent, industrious and rich, garlic that will count, rich possession,spring vegetables on behalf of the spring back to the earth, leek long symbol long long time ...... It has long been as the Chaoshan area folk custom.
According to legend, one of the Song dynasty officials was framed by traitors and was demoted to the south. On the seventh day of the first month, he came to a remote wilderness on the bank of Rongjiang River. He felt dizzy and hungry. He had to pick up some wild herbs on the spot and cook the mixed vegetable soup to fill his stomach. When he finished,he felt brightly in his eyes and covered with strength, and later the officer reinstated high, he recalled the year in the Jiangnan tasted a total of seven kinds of life-saving wild herbs, so he let his family must take seven different vegetables on the first day of the seventh lunar month, , boiled "seven kinds of vegetables" and ate.