What is a temple fair

The temple fair, also known as "temple market" or "festival". It is a Chinese folk religion and custom of the year, usually held in the Lunar New Year, Lantern Festival, February 2nd Dragon Heads Up Festival. It is also one of the forms of Chinese fair trade, whose formation and development are related to the religious activities of local temples, and is held on the festivals or specified dates of temples, and is mostly located in and around temples. Temple fairs are popular in a wide area of the country.

The temple fair is an ancient traditional folk cultural activities. In addition to general New Year's festivals, temple fairs were the main custom of New Year's celebrations in Beijing in the old days. With the development of the times, there will be a series of temple fairs every Spring Festival in different parts of the country. In addition to the familiar "Factory Deen", "Wuxian Caixin Temple" (from the second to the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year), "Dongyue Temple In addition to the familiar "Factory Deen", "Wuxian Temple of God of Wealth" (the second to the sixteenth), "Dongyue Temple" (the first to the fifteenth), "Baiyunguan" (the first to the nineteenth), "Banzai Mountain Spring Festival Temple Festival" (the first to the sixteenth on the Chinese lunar calendar) are the most famous temple fairs in the country, most rich in the New Year's characteristics.

Expanded Information:

The temple fair is an ancient folklore and folk religious and cultural activity. Opened in conjunction with the religious festivals of the Buddhist and Taoist religions, people go to temples mainly to enter incense and seek blessings and pray for good fortune. Some of the regular temple fair, late has no incense, evolved into a pure trade fair, people visit the temple is mainly to buy some souvenirs and daily necessities, by the way to see a small theater and juggling, entertainment.

In short, the temple visitors are not to eat. But people burn incense on the temple, shopping, entertainment, always around half a day, necessarily hungry and tired. See all kinds of delicious, can not help but produce appetite. So the kind of food stalls in the temple fair is naturally full.

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