Aojiu Festival is a traditional folk festival in Shiyi, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, which falls on the 29th day of the first lunar month. On this day, every household will cook nine porridge to offer sacrifices to ancestors or give it to relatives and friends; Married women should also send nine porridge back to their parents' homes to honor their parents.

This custom is still prevalent in Fuzhou. An old mother who drank "Oujiu porridge" said that "Oujiu porridge" not only contains brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, longan, etc., but also has a filial piety of children, which is sweet to the heart.

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"Aojiu Festival" has become a social fashion of respecting the elderly and advocating filial piety, which has been carried forward in Fuzhou. In the "Aojiu Festival", a grand "filial feast" for thousands of people was held in the ancestral hall of Chen's family in Lailei Village, Chengmen Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou.

The ancestral hall was filled with 195 tables inside and outside, and nearly 2,000 elderly people over half a century were seated at the table, chatting and eating delicious food while enjoying the wonderful performance of Fujian opera on the stage. The young people in the village are busy, serving dishes and sending tea. This banquet custom of respecting the elderly has been followed in the local area for more than 20 years.

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