The custom of Aojiu Festival is 200 words.

On March 16, the 29th Wine Festival of the first lunar month is a traditional folk festival in Shiqian, Fuzhou. On this day, every household will cook nine porridge to worship their ancestors or send them to relatives and friends; Married women should also send porridge to their parents to honor them.

In the early morning of this day, every household cooked sweet porridge or rice with prepared glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnut, sesame seeds, longan and ginkgo biloba (seaweed and oysters in coastal areas), commonly known as "Nine Rice".

Every household of Xiapu residents of all ethnic groups should cook wine and rice to sacrifice their ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. Married women should not only send bowls of wine and rice, but also boil eggs, noodles, pig's trotters, jiaozi and one or two bottles of wine (jiaozi means promising in Xiapu dialect, and wine and wine are homophonic) to their parents' home. In order to show filial piety to parents and wish them good health, it means that parents are "happy as the East China Sea and live longer than the South Mountain".

The 29th day of the first lunar month is a traditional folk festival in Fuzhou, which has a history of more than 400 years. Fuzhou folks call the ninth day of the first month as serving wine, the nineteenth as Chinese wine, and the twenty-ninth as post-wine. In Fuzhou dialect, "Hou" and "Ao" are homophonic. Hence the name "Ao Jiujie".

On this day, every household will cook nine porridge to worship their ancestors or give it to relatives and friends. Married women will also send nine porridge back to their parents' homes to honor their parents.