The Fuyang Festival is a festival created based on Xuzhou folk food customs with Pengzu cultural connotations. During Peng Zu's time, there was a common custom of eating sheep in Xuzhou. The "Yang Fang Hidden Fish" created by Peng Zu was the sublimation of the sheep cooking skills of that era. According to the "Book of Han" records, the emperor "gave him meat from his official position" when the sun went down. The "official meat" at that time was mutton, the first of the "three animals". There was no doubt that Emperor Futian and his ministers enjoyed mutton. Not only were sheep eaten in the palace, but there is also a record in the "Book of Han" that "the Tian family suffered hardships, and when they were old, they cooked sheep, canned lambs, and fought with wine to work themselves out."

Before the Song Dynasty, most of the palace banquets were mutton. In the Yuan Dynasty, mutton dominated palace banquets, accounting for more than two-thirds of all dishes. From the aesthetic judgment of "big sheep" as "beautiful", to the food pursuit of "fish and sheep" as "fresh", to the health concept of "eating sheep" as "nourishing", all of them imply the ancestors' attachment to mutton delicacies. Pursuit and understanding of lamb cooking.

In the Xuhuai area, Xiao County is famous for its mutton. People in Xiao County, together with the Xuzhou area, have a custom of eating mutton during the dog days. On the first day of each year, people are accustomed to buying mutton from the market and cooking it at home. Since Xiao County was under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou in ancient times, there were frequent people-to-people exchanges between the two places. There were many restaurants in Xiao County that were opened in Xuzhou, which was also the reason why the festival was able to spread quickly in Xuzhou. Xiaoxian mutton has enjoyed a good reputation for more than 300 years. There are more than 5,000 mutton restaurants in Xiao County. Most of the restaurants use Xiao County white goats that are 3 to 6 months old and have received national geographical indications. The meat is extremely tender. Xiao County's traditional dishes are mostly based on mutton, and there is a saying that "there is no feast without mutton"