Inheriting folk culture? ? ? Promote national unity

The Progressive Significance of Lianhuashan Temple Fair in Linxia

As a traditional folk culture in China, temple fairs are of great significance in social development. Temple fairs in different regions contain different cultural connotations and influences. Linxia's "Lotus Mountain Temple Fair" began to sprout from the construction of the temple in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the embryonic form of the temple fair was formed in the Ming Dynasty, which was dominated by worshipping mountains and supplemented by singing flowers. After 500 years of historical evolution, it has integrated religious belief, commercial folklore, culture and art and many other aspects. It has formed the distinctive characteristics of mass, seasonality, radiation and national regionality. At the same time, it also promoted the development of surrounding commercial activities and tourism to a certain extent. In the development process of nearly 500 years, it has precipitated and condensed its own unique cultural connotation. It has strengthened the cultural and emotional exchanges among the Han, Hui, Tibetan, Tu and Dongxiang ethnic groups, and formed great national cohesion and cultural centripetal force. It has greatly promoted national unity in minority areas and set up a stage for the inheritance and development of folk culture in minority areas.

Nowadays, with the increase of people's spiritual and cultural needs, the scale of "Lianhuashan Temple Fair" is also expanding. In recent years, the number of participants has remained above100000. Today, "Lotus Mountain" has many reputations, such as "Gansu Famous Mountain", "Buddhist Scenic Area" and "Land of Flowers", which attracts many tourists to visit. At the same time, it also radiated and promoted the rise and development of smaller temple fairs in the surrounding areas. Today's "Lotus Mountain" temple fair, its function can no longer be limited to traditional folk activities such as thanking and praying for blessings and offering sacrifices to gods. The times have endowed it with new cultural connotations and functions, and it has more expressed the exchange and development of culture, art and emotion among different nationalities and regions. What it builds is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-activity performance stage. On this stage, "Lotus Mountain Flower", as an excellent folk culture in Northwest China, is the most distinctive, connotative and popular performer among people of all ethnic groups. All these show the unique cultural connotation and distinctive ethnic and regional characteristics of the Lotus Mountain Temple Fair.

"Lianhuashan Temple Fair" provides a very important carrier for the inheritance and development of local folk traditional culture to a great extent. Although with the development of social economy, some temple fairs are changing from "entertaining gods" to "entertaining people". In this change, we can't deny that the main role of Lianhuashan Temple Fair has been weakened, and it will also bring some negative effects. However, as a product of local folk culture, it still has its unique cultural value, is an important part of folk culture, and is also an important spiritual home for rural people. Although new forms and new contents are constantly injected into the inheritance and development, we must not underestimate its great role in the inheritance, development and innovation of local folk culture. The unique cultural function and connotation of Lianhuashan Temple Fair cannot be ignored because of the "flower fever". I believe that in the cultural transformation of folk temple fairs, the "Lotus Mountain" temple fair will also glow with new cultural connotations and functions. It will add more vitality to the prosperity of cultural undertakings in ethnic areas, promote cultural exchanges in ethnic areas and enhance national unity.