Zhou in troubled times During World War II, Shanghai was in the hands of the Japanese, and founding member Wu Chih-hui followed the KMT government to Chongqing. Constantly visited by thoughts of Ting and other old comrades still in enemy-occupied Shanghai, he revived the Zhou Club there in Chongqing, where it was known to the local Sichuan population as the "evening zhou party."
稀飯晚會抗戰末期，上海淪陷，粥會元老吳稚暉跟著國民政府移居重慶，懸念著淪陷區內的老友丁福保等人，吳稚暉於是重新恢復白粥之會，也就是四川人口中的「稀飯晚會」。