What are the activities of Guiyuan Temple's annual temple fair? Describe it specifically.

Hanyang Temple Fair has a long history. It is not only a folk traditional cultural entertainment activity, but also a lively business activity. With the fame and influence of Guiyuan Temple, Hanyang Temple Fair attracts many pilgrims and tourists to visit the temple and worship Buddha before and after the Spring Festival every year. At this time, folk artists from all walks of life also appeared around the temple fair and performed various performances, while businessmen set up stalls at the temple fair to sell various seasonal holiday goods. While enjoying various entertainment performances, tourists can also visit the market and buy their favorite goods. Since the establishment of Guiyuan Temple in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Hanyang Temple Fair has been quite famous by the middle of Qing Dynasty. Guiyuan Temple is one of the famous sleeping places in Chu Province. Every year, the temple fair is very prosperous, crowded and full of festive atmosphere.

During the Republic of China, Hanyang Temple Fair was still very prosperous. According to an article by Mr. Chen Zhongdai, a veteran of the Kuomintang, describing the Guiyuan Temple Fair in the Republic of China, he wrote: "On the first month of the lunar calendar, there are an endless stream of male and female pilgrims who come here to make pilgrimages, especially on the ninth day of the first month, and the long snake array is ten miles long. All the people from afar are in groups, with flags, umbrellas and gongs and drums. Pilgrims are all incense burners on their heads, wearing flowers on their backs, bowing in ten steps, bowing in five steps, and coming from four roads, which can be described as unprecedented. In this month's time, thousands of merchants gathered around the temple, and various arts were mixed among them, which was several times more than the current trade show. This passage vividly describes the grand occasion of Hanyang Temple Fair in the Republic of China and reflects people's incomprehension about Hanyang Temple Fair. This traditional folk activity is deeply remembered by people.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China 1963 Spring Festival, Guiyuan Temple held a temple fair. People visit temples, count arhats, taste vegetarian food and enjoy various cultural performances. At the same time, they also visited the market and bought goods with great interest, which added a little joy to the festival. After Guiyuan Temple reopened on 1977, the number of Chinese and foreign tourists visiting the temple increased sharply every year, especially around the Spring Festival. People hope to resume the traditional temple fair activities. In order to meet people's needs in cultural life, the Hanyang District Government has held a cultural fair at Cuiwei Road in front of Guiyuan Temple since 1989. 199 1 year was named Hanyang Cultural Temple Fair. The content of the temple fair combines Buddhist culture, folk culture, modern culture and commercial culture, and its scale and taste are much higher than before.

After more than ten years of practice, Hanyang Temple Fair has gradually formed its own unique pattern: during the temple fair, the colorful building of the "Temple Fair" was erected at the eastern end of Cuiwei Road, red lights were hung along the street, colorful flags were hung everywhere, and colorful ribbons fluttered, which was full of the flavor of folk festivals. The sidewalks on both sides of the street have set up colorful exhibition activities and commodity exhibition points from east to west. There are cultural performances, folk acrobatics, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, solve riddles on the lanterns, Chinese products exhibitions, and local snacks. The temple culture in the temple and the folk literature outside the temple compete to shine. The opening ceremony of the temple fair was grand and warm, presided over by the leaders of the district government and unveiled in the sound of drum music. Master Chang Ming was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the temple fair many times. Dressed in cassock, he is full of energy and enjoys the people with the leaders of provinces, cities and districts. He improvised a jingle at the opening ceremony of the third temple fair: "The Middle East is chaotic, China is as stable as Mount Tai, the central leadership is correct, and festivals are United." At the beginning of the performance, thousands of people from forty or fifty streets, towns and units organized a large-scale street performance. These programs, rooted in Jianghan Plain, are popular folk festivals in Wuhan: dragon rolling, stilts, colorful lotus boats, Gao Long, lion dancing, shrimp lanterns, bamboo sheep, semi-sperm worms and three-section dragons. Many performances are the unique skills of Hanyang folk literature and art, which has opened the eyes of Chinese and foreign tourists. A Dutch expert named Mao Yang praised "freshness" after reading it. He said, "This is an unforgettable scene for me in China." The whole temple fair has formed a warm, peaceful, cheerful and prosperous atmosphere. Every day, tens of thousands of tourists are immersed in the ocean of joy until late at night, lingering.

The persistence of Hanyang Temple Fair is because the organizers attach importance to the continuous innovation of temple fair activities. 199 1 The third temple fair will combine folk art performances with folk dragon dance competitions, the fourth will increase float parades, the fifth will hold street Spring Festival lantern festivals, and the sixth will hold mass square cultural and sports dance exhibitions ... The ninth district government and the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles jointly held large-scale city-wide folk art competitions, exhibitions of fine folk crafts and household handicrafts, and the Lantern Festival. At that time, more than 20 Wuhan folk artists took out their masterpieces to participate in the temple fair exhibition. The stilt pavilion in Xinzhou and the majestic gongs and drums in Qingshan also came to entertain. It's really an unprecedented excitement. In 200 1 year, Hanyang Temple Fair was jointly organized by the city and district * * *, which officially launched the brand of Guiyuan Cultural Temple Fair and upgraded to a municipal-level characteristic activity. In 2003, the number of visitors to Guiyuan Temple Fair reached one million, and Guiyuan Temple Fair ushered in its heyday. Nowadays, whenever the Spring Festival comes, people will say together, "Visit the temple fair and go to Hanyang!"