Aojiu Festival is a unique traditional folk festival in Fuzhou, also known as Filial Piety Festival and Sending the Poor Festival. Early this morning, Fuzhou people cooked sweet porridge with glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnuts, sesame seeds, longan and other raw materials, called "Oujiu porridge", which was used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends; Especially the married daughter, she must send a bowl of "Wojiu porridge" back to her family to honor her parents and wish her peace and health.
This custom is still prevalent in Fuzhou. An old mother who drank "lotus root wine porridge" said that "lotus root wine porridge" not only contains brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, longan and so on. And there is also a filial piety of children, sweet to the heart.
"Aojiu Festival" has become a social fashion of respecting the elderly and advocating filial piety, and it has been carried forward in Fuzhou. On the "Aojiu Festival", a grand "filial piety banquet" for thousands of people was held in Chen's Ancestral Hall in Lailei Village, Chengmen Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou: 195 tables were filled inside and outside the Ancestral Hall.
Nearly2,000 elderly people in their 500 s sat around the table, chatting and eating delicious food while enjoying the wonderful Fujian opera performance on the stage. Young people in the village are busy serving dishes and delivering tea. This banquet custom of respecting the elderly has been followed in the local area for more than 20 years.
"Four Seasons Treasure" said: "Levin's son died on July 29th. It is still a legacy to put porridge and rags in the world and abandon them in hutongs to get rid of poverty. " Different theories of origin are given, that is, five miscellaneous stories about "eliminating poverty", continuing annals and chronology also hold this view. According to Xie's Five Miscellaneous Days II, Aojiu Festival is also called Yaojiu Festival because of "bad weather".