The content of the handwritten newspaper for the Aojiu Festival is as follows:
The Aojiu Festival is a traditional folk festival in the Shiyi area of ??Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. The date is the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month. On this day, every household will cook Aojiu porridge to worship their ancestors or give it to relatives and friends; married women will also send Aojiu porridge back to their natal homes to honor their parents.
The 29th day of the first lunar month is a traditional folk festival unique to Fuzhou and Xiapu. "Aojiu Festival" is also known as "Later Nine Festival" and "Filial Piety Festival". In the traditional concept of Fuzhou people, "Nine" is a difficult time. Early this morning, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnuts, sesame, longan, ginkgo and other raw materials to cook sweet porridge, called "Aojiu porridge", which is used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends.
Married daughters must also send a bowl of "Aojiu porridge", some with Taiping, eggs, pig's trotters, etc., back to their parents' home to honor their parents. In addition, any person whose age is nine (virtual age), such as nine, nineteen, twenty-nine... (called "Ming Jiu"), or a multiple of nine, such as eighteen, twenty-seven, At the age of thirty-six... (called "Dark Nine"), just like celebrating your birthday, you should eat a bowl of "Tai Ping" for peace and health
The "Aojiu Festival" is performed as a way to respect the elderly The social custom of respecting the elderly and advocating filial piety has been carried forward in Fuzhou. During the "Yujiu Festival", Lulei Village, Chengmen Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou held a grand "filial piety banquet" for thousands of people in the Chen's ancestral hall: 195 tables were filled inside and outside the ancestral hall. Nearly two thousand elderly people over fifty were sitting at the table, chatting leisurely and eating delicious food
while enjoying the wonderful performances of Fujian opera on the stage; while the young people in the village were busy serving food and tea. This banquet custom of the Aojiu Respect for the Elderly Festival has been followed in the local area for more than 20 years.