February 8 th Chunhu Temple Fair

"Spring Lake Catch February 8" started in Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. According to the folklore of the Han nationality, Hu Quan Lake has been dry for years, and people are starving everywhere. Lord Shou Ye Fu, a fairy in the sky, cast a spell to ask for rain, save all beings and save the Spring Lakers. The Lakers in the spring are grateful to Dade. In order to commemorate Shoufu's achievements, on Shoufu's birthday, that is, the eighth day of February, a temple was built to burn incense and worship, and cultural activities such as dragon dancing and singing operas were held to celebrate Shoufu's birthday. Vendors from all walks of life also came to conduct business activities such as agricultural and sideline products trading to prepare for the upcoming spring ploughing production and boost the festive atmosphere. This traditional custom, accompanied by agricultural products trading and thanksgiving gathering, has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a landmark festival temple fair every spring.

On this day, vendors gathered in Hu Quan Town, Hengnan County, from Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi, as well as from cities and counties around Qiyang, Qidong, Shaoyang and Changning, with the number ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Hu Quan Street, 5 kilometers from Fiona Fang, is full of various farm tools, herbs, saplings and vegetable seeds. The wood and bamboo trading market covers the widest area and has the most varieties. All kinds of bamboo woven products are sold while weaving, which is cheap and good. A group of people carrying furniture and windmills, beaming and busy. At the foot of the mountain is the cattle market. The two sides negotiated the price in their sleeves with gestures, and no one else knew. Fresh water chestnut is on the market, and so are fresh handicrafts. On February 8th, new agricultural machinery, new knowledge and new employment opportunities were displayed at the Hu Quan Temple Fair. The transaction amount is tens of millions of yuan. "Spring Lake February 8th" provides a lively trading market for the circulation of agricultural products in southern China, a star of economic growth in Hengnan County and a charming business card in Hengyang.

The annual "Spring Lake February 8th" temple fair lasts about three days, and National Highway 322 passes through Hu Quan Town. During the temple fair, there was a serious traffic jam because the crowd was too concentrated. In recent years, Hengnan county party committee and county government attach great importance to it. Before each festival, enough public security and traffic police are sent to ensure safety, the industrial and commercial agriculture and forestry departments ensure the market, and the secretary and county magistrate personally go to the temple fair to maintain order and understand people's livelihood. In order to increase the festive atmosphere of the temple fair, there are cultural programs going to the countryside every year to bring joy to farmers. This year, the "intangible cultural heritage propaganda team" of the county cultural center prepared a program for nearly five hours and came to "Spring Lake February 8". Intangible cultural heritages such as flower drum, suona, fishing drum, acrobatics and magic are staged here in turn. Intangible cultural heritages such as wine, sesame cakes, red tofu, Qiqiaolong and local specialties are displayed here. The audience was crowded and the occasion was unprecedented. February 8th in Hu Quan is the best scene for the promotion, inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage, and it is also the best place for industry to cooperate with agriculture and protection.

However, due to the rapid progress of modern industrial civilization, agricultural civilization is also rapidly retrogressing, and farm tools and agricultural materials have been replaced by mechanization. In addition, due to the decrease of agricultural population at home, modern young farmers are not interested in ancient production technology, which leads to many trading varieties with strong Han folk customs in memory fading out of the Spring Lake February 8 Temple Fair market. In addition, traffic has become a headache every year, which makes governments at all levels in Hengnan nervous before the temple fair. Due to various factors, "Spring Lake February 8" is on the verge of danger and needs urgent protection.

In order to inherit and prosper the temple fair market of "Spring Lake February 8th", protect intangible cultural heritage projects, resolutely ban the occupied market, ensure the smooth traffic of national highways, improve the urban and rural environment, and speed up the urbanization construction, Hengnan County took advantage of the strong momentum of the spirit of the 18th National Congress, focused on the protection and utilization of cultural heritage, and under the guidance of the policy of implementing rural environment and urban and rural governance, focused on the relocation project of "Spring Lake February 8th" farmers' market as a service for the benefit of the people. According to Peng Hongjun, the project leader of February 8 of Spring Lake Farmers Market, at the end of last year, with the strong support of provincial and municipal intangible cultural protection centers, with the goal of building "the chief intangible cultural commercial and residential demonstration zone in southern Hunan" and the concept of "living in a 100,000-square-meter mansion in Spring Lake", the project area was * * * 45,000 square meters and the total construction area was/kloc-0. "February 8th in Spring Lake" is a street with folk customs. We will strive to restore and reproduce all the ancient commercial varieties of the temple fair within 1 2 years, and show the unique customs and farming civilization of "February 8th in Spring Lake".