The Festival Origin of Shandong Temple Fair

Linqing has Daning Temple Fair on the first day of the first month, Jingning Temple Fair on February 19, Xiaojinding Temple Fair on March 3, Xiemating Temple Fair on March 30, Chenghuang Temple Fair on May 28, September 15 and1February/kloc. Shandong temple fair has a long history, spread to modern times. On the basis of absorbing the essence of tradition, it has injected a new flavor of the times. Temple fair is an important part of China Han civil society life, which is closely related to people's economic and cultural activities and daily life. Through the temple fair activities in some areas of Shandong, it helps us to understand the rural economic development at that time; Understand the infiltration and expansion of state power to civil society; It is more helpful to understand the accumulation of China traditional culture in the real social structure, so as to better play the economic and tourism cultural functions of the temple fair and serve the economic and cultural construction in Shandong. Regarding "temple" and "society", Kangxi dictionary: Notes on Ancient and Modern Times: the temple owner is also beautiful, so it seems to be described by ancestors. Name Definition: Where is the morphology of ancestors? "Jade": Zongmiao also. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "The temple respects the ancestors. Duan Yucai commented: "The temples of the ancients were dedicated to ancestors. It took three generations to build temples for the gods, not for the temple people. "According to this, we know that the temples in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties were only ancestral halls for emperors and nobles to sacrifice their ancestors, and they were extremely productive places, which was also the original meaning of the word" temple "; It can be seen that the ancient meeting refers to the regular or irregular political meeting between the emperor and the vassal or between the vassal and the vassal, that is, the so-called "Three Years of Zuo Zhuan Zhao Gong" said: "The vassal was hired at the age of three, and the dynasty was held at the age of five. If something happens, he will meet, but he won't agree. "