The custom of cooking wine in Fuzhou

Boiling wine festival is a unique festival custom in Fuzhou. On this morning, every household will cook glutinous rice porridge with red dates, brown sugar, water chestnut, longan, peanuts and other condiments, which is called "lotus root nine porridge" as the breakfast of the whole family.

The "Aojiu Festival", also known as the "Last Nine Festival" and "Filial Piety Festival", is also a unique festival in Fuzhou, that is, Thanksgiving Day in Fuzhou.

If there are nine members in the family (there are two kinds: one is called "Ming Jiu", such as nine, nineteen and twenty years old; A kind of "dark nine", such as 29 18, 3927, 4936, etc. ), in addition to eating "sticky nine porridge", I have to eat noodles and two eggs, which is too light. This is called "over nine", which means I wish you a safe "over nine"

If there are "nine" among relatives and friends, they should also send "nine porridge" and "peace", which is as meaningful as family members; Especially for the elderly, it is a sign of filial piety for future generations to wish them a safe ninth birthday. However, after eating the porridge of the ninth festival, people began to sow seedlings to welcome the spring ploughing. Therefore, there is a saying among local people that "the seedlings in the field are in a hurry". Solemnly declare: the answer is for reference only, please don't be blindly superstitious.