"Au Jiu Festival" it is also known as "after nine festival", "filial piety festival" which is also unique to Fuzhou festival is Fuzhou Thanksgiving.

If the members of the family have nine (there are two kinds: one is said to be "bright nine", such as nine, nineteen, twenty; one is said to be "dark nine", such as two-nine eighteen, three-nine twenty-seven, four-nine thirty-six years old, etc.), in addition to eating the

In addition to eating the "nine congee", but also to eat line noodles and 2 eggs, that is, the plane, this is said to be "over nine", meaning to wish a safe passage through the "nine" this pass.

If there are friends and relatives in the "nine" people, but also to gift "au jiu congee" and "too flat", the significance of the same as family members; especially for the elderly, wishing for peace over the Especially for the elderly, wishing for a safe journey through the "nine" is a manifestation of filial piety of children and grandchildren. After eating the congee at the Festival of Nine, people began to plant rice seedlings to meet the spring plowing, so there is a local "Festival of Nine, rice seedlings under the land of agricultural affairs in a hurry," the folk proverb. Zheng Zheng declared: the answer is for reference only, please do not blindly superstitious.