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What activities are there at the temple fair?

There are many folk activities at the temple fair, such as touching stone monkeys and lying on the Phoenix Bridge to make money. Below the arc stone carving of Baiyun Temple, there is a stone monkey relief. People think that touching stone monkeys can eliminate diseases and prolong life, so they compete to touch them. There is a big copper coin hanging in the bridge opening under the Phoenix Bridge. There is a small copper bell in the hole of the copper coin, which reads "The bell rings auspicious". If you can hit the bronze bell with a coin in your hand, you will get what you want. These two activities are the most lively activities at the temple fair. With the changes of the times, many new contents have been added to ancient temple fairs, such as business negotiations during the temple fairs, but showing folk customs has always been the main feature of temple fairs. The contents include lion dance, traditional national flower performance, modern dance, Beijing folk figure modeling, traditional commercial "cover" exhibition, old Beijing photo exhibition, folk arts and crafts exhibition, special book exhibition, Beijing opera, martial arts, acrobatics and so on. Temple fair integrates tourism, leisure and entertainment, shopping and catering, and has distinctive traditional ethnic characteristics.