During the Fuyang Festival, the Daigu red goats selected from the local area will run a 100-meter sheep race and hold a grand and unprecedented sheep fighting competition.

The Fuyang Festival is a traditional Chinese food festival, which starts on the first day of Fuyang in the traditional lunar calendar every year and ends at the end of Fuyang, lasting for one month. "Eating Fuyang in Futian" has a long history in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, which can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. Since ancient times, there has been a saying among the people in the Xuzhou area that "a bowl of soup is enough for a sheep, and there is no need for a miracle doctor to prescribe a prescription".

"Fu Yang" refers to the mutton after entering Fu Yang. "Book of Han·Yang Yun Zhuan" records: "The Tian family is suffering, and when the weather falls during the winter, the sheep and lambs will be fermented, and they will work themselves out by fighting with wine." Eating mutton during the dog days warms the body with heat, perspires and detoxifies, and removes the toxins of winter and spring. Dampness removal is a great innovation in using food as therapy. Xuzhou Pengzu Fuyang Festival was awarded the title of Jiangsu Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The 2018 Chinese Sheep Festival opened on July 16 in Xuzhou City.

Guxiang people love to eat mutton. Whether it is roasted mutton, cold mutton, roasted mutton, mutton soup or mutton noodles, Guxiang people can always "love it"! There are many ways to eat sheep: for example, there are nutritious mutton in clear soup, delicious braised mutton, and crispy and delicious lamb chops...it depends on how you choose! The milky white mutton soup is generously put with large pieces of mutton, a spoonful of chili oil is sprinkled with coriander, and it looks so tempting.

After eating the fragrant and delicious mutton, have another bowl of mutton soup. The white soup is paired with vermicelli and coriander. It’s so delicious!