Glutinous rice porridge is usually eaten on the ninth day, which is also called "the last nine days". In the traditional concept of Fuzhou people, "nine" is hard. Early this morning, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnut, sesame seeds, longan and other raw materials to cook sweet porridge, which is called "lotus root wine porridge" to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends.

In the famous Sanfangqixiang ancient block in Fuzhou, Antailou Restaurant, which is famous for its delicacies and traditional Fujian cuisine, set up a porridge delivery point at the door of the store to distribute free "boiled porridge" serving red dates, peanuts, longan, lotus seeds, brown sugar and glutinous rice to the public.

It has become a traditional activity of Antailou Restaurant, a time-honored brand, to send "porridge for cooking wine" for free during the "Cooking Wine Festival". Before the "Boiling Wine Festival", Fuzhou folk experts were specially invited to explain the origin of the "Boiling Wine Festival" for diners. Its operator said that he hoped to inherit this traditional festival in Fuzhou.

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 chestnut, 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 day of "Aojiu Festival", a grand "filial feast" for thousands of people was held in Chen Ancestral Hall in Zhenlailei Village, Cangshan District, Fuzhou.

The ancestral hall was filled with 195 tables, and nearly 2,000 elderly people over half a century sat around the tables, 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.