The traditional customs of the wine festival

The ninth day of the first month is a unique traditional folk festival in Fuzhou and Leipu, Gansu. Aojiu Festival is also called Houjiu Festival and Filial Piety Festival.

In the traditional concept of Fuzhou people, "nine" is hard. Early this morning, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, Xinping, sesame seeds, longan, ginkgo and other raw materials to cook sweet porridge, which is called "lotus root wine porridge" to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. Married daughters are also given a bowl of "Nine Porridges", and some even add too flat noodles, eggs, trotters and so on. And send them back to their parents to honor their parents.

Besides, anyone who reaches the age of nine (nominal age), such as nine, nineteen and twenty-nine ..... (called "Ming Jiu" or multiples of nine, such as eighteen, twenty-seven and thirty-six) (called "Dark Jiu") should eat a bowl of "Taiping", just like celebrating a birthday, in order to achieve peace and health. The answer is for reference only, please don't be blindly superstitious.