Fuyang Festival is a custom in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Ningxia, Hubei and Zhejiang. "Fuyang", that is, mutton after crouching. The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional food festival in China, which begins on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the last day of the lunar calendar every year, and lasts for one month. Savoring the culture of Han and Yao and Shun, commemorating Peng Zu and Huyan, and having an outing are the basic themes of Fuyang Festival.

"Eating sheep in dog days" has a long history in Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province and Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, which can be traced back to the Yao and Shun period. Since ancient times, there has been a saying among the people in Huaihai that "a bowl of mutton soup needs no prescription from a doctor".

According to Hanshu, the emperor "waited for his grandson and gave him official meat". At that time, the "official meat" was the mutton at the head of the "three sacrifices", and it was certain that Emperor Fukuda shared mutton with his ministers. It is not only eating sheep in the palace, but also recorded in Hanshu that "the family worked hard, smoked wax when they were old, cooked and roasted sheep, and competed for wine."

During the Fuyang Food Festival, the major hotels, restaurants and mutton restaurants in the city launched the "Fuyang Food" series, which was evaluated by the public. At the same time, the special mutton restaurant from the surrounding areas came to Xuzhou to show the famous attractions of local snacks, and there were colorful activities, such as performing local dramas, performing dances, martial arts and folk customs, exhibiting fabrics, dough sculptures, paper-cutting and exotic flowers and birds.