When does Yanqiao Temple Fair start?

In 2023, Yanqiao Temple Fair began on April 22nd.

On April 22nd, 2023, under the beautiful Xishan Mountain, the 6th Folk Culture Festival of "Gu Yan Xinli Shi Sheng Rongchang" opened in Yanqiao on March 3rd. Inheriting the Wuyun Folk Culture Exhibition originated from 1994 Xishan Temple Fair, this folk culture festival has added brand-new cultural elements and added fireworks to Huishan Central District.

In the Wu Culture Park, where flowers and trees are flourishing, more than 30 booths are lined up, attracting tens of thousands of local and surrounding people. For the first time, the Folk Culture Festival, which integrates Wu culture and Yan 'an spirit, has also set up five sub-venues, which are presented simultaneously in Xizhang Park, Shang Yue Ole and Tianshang Village, providing a series of wonderful activities such as excellent folk culture display, market intangible creation, intangible creation and traditional cultural experience. The feast of cultural integration between North and South will last 1 1 day.

Characteristics of temple fairs

Temple fairs turn temple fairs into local festivals and religious festivals into secular festivals. Therefore, those local unique prayer activities, non-religious entertainment and rest activities, and market activities can all be naturally integrated into the temple fair. Therefore, the temple fair is not so much a religious activity as a local festival, which can more accurately reflect the essential attributes of the temple fair. Therefore, accurately speaking, this multi-connotation temple fair can be called a festival temple fair.

Temple fair is also a comprehensive folk activity, involving religious beliefs, commercial folk customs, literature and entertainment and many other aspects. This is determined by historical and geographical material conditions, folk traditions and people's aesthetic standards. Temple fairs in different places have their own characteristics and different emphases, forming different beauty of life, but they all show the best way of life under local conditions at that time.