The "Drinking Festival" is a traditional folk festival in Shiqian District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, which is held on the 29th day of the first lunar month. On this day, every household will cook nine porridge to worship their ancestors or give it to relatives and friends; Married women should also send Jiu Zhou back to their parents' home to honor their parents.
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" with cooking speed and service such as 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" 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.