The iconic activity during the Chinese New Year in Beijing is visiting temple fairs. Visiting temple fairs is not only a favorite thing for old Beijingers, but also one of the favorite activities for tourists who first arrived in Beijing during the Spring Festival. So, everyone Do you know what the eight major temples in Beijing are? 1. Temple Fair in Ditan Park
The earliest temple fair held in Beijing is famous for its authentic folk customs and traditional folk characteristics of old Beijing. Each temple fair attracts more than one million tourists, including many foreign tourists.
The Ditan Temple Fair has New Year shopping, land worship and entertainment programs every year. Diabolo, ancient color magic, ventriloquism and other old Beijing unique skills are a feast for the eyes. Among them, the Imitation Qing Sacrifice Performance is a unique traditional program of the Temple of Earth Temple Fair. It reproduces the scene of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty offering sacrifices to the earth, praying for the blessing of the earth god, peace and prosperity of the country, good weather, and a good harvest. It presents tourists with a colorful, full-season, and unique performance. A unique cultural event that combines tradition and innovation.
Address: Ditan Park, Andingmenwai Street, Dongcheng District 2. Changdian Temple Fair, Beijing
As one of the "four major temple fairs" in China, the Changdian Temple Fair is the only one among the first to be included in the national The Old Beijing Cultural Temple Fair, which is listed as a national intangible cultural heritage, is held every year from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month. It is the largest, most Beijing-flavored, most famous and popular.
In the minds of old Beijingers, the Changdian Temple Fair is essentially a "shopping", including traditional flower fairs in old Beijing, old Beijing folk customs and old photo exhibitions, traditional commercial "cover" exhibitions, and unique performances on the old overpass. , Peking Opera and other traditional drama performances, as well as special book fairs, etc., allow people to experience the exquisite traditional skills of Beijing flavor in the rich folk customs.
Address: Liulichang, Wenshi District, Xicheng District and Taoranting Park 3, Folklore District, Longtan Park Temple Fair
During the temple fair, there will be intangible cultural heritage displays, artistic performances by flower fair teams, The Chinese stunt performance and acrobatic display stage bring together excellent folk skills.
The folk performances, flower festivals, car shows, book markets, and snack streets on the banks of Longtan Lake are all carefully designed. You can also compete with local masters in chess skills, which is so much fun.
Address: Longtan Park 4, Badachu Park Temple Fair, No. 8 Longtan Road, Dongcheng District
Badachu Park Temple Fair is the only temple fair in Beijing that has both a temple and a fair. It has a strong Han folk customs and local flavor. You can experience the authentic old Beijing a hundred years ago through a series of themed activities such as the New Year Prayer Ceremony in the Badachu Park Temple Fair, the opening of the blessing door with auras of light, the thirteen flower festivals and temple walks, and the largest "money eye" in Beijing. Temple fair culture.
It is well documented that temple fairs in the eight temples of Xishan were very lively in history, especially Lingguang Temple, Xiangjie Temple and other temples with long histories and prosperous temple fairs.
The Badachu New Year Prayer Temple Fair is the only real temple fair in Beijing that has both a temple and a temple fair. It includes a New Year Prayer Assembly, 13 flower festivals, temple visits, mass cultural performances, crossing the Fuqiao Bridge, and entering the temple. There are exciting activities such as blessing gates, walking the blessing road, setting blessing rings, lighting blessing candles, tasting blessing tea, eating blessing cakes, ringing auspicious bells, beating peace drums, and offering peace incense, etc., preparing a traditional temple fair for tourists with a strong New Year flavor. 's feast.
Address: 5. South Foot of Xishan Scenic Area, Shijingshan District, Grand View Garden Red Mansion Temple Fair
During the Spring Festival this year, the Grand View Garden Red Mansion Temple Fair is the only cultural-themed temple fair in Beijing with the classics garden as the background. , with the theme of "Dream of Red Mansions", a variety of programs will be staged in five locations in the Grand View Garden: the large stage, the small stage, the South Gate Square, the sky above the lake, and the island in the middle of the lake. Baoyu, Daiyu, and other classic literary figures loved by the people will be staged in turn. He will step out of the classics and come closer to the people, becoming more down-to-earth. As a unique traditional feature of the Red Mansions Temple Fair, the large-scale ancient costume ceremonial performance of Yuan Fei’s provincial relatives is very popular among tourists.
During the temple fair, traditional cultural performances such as shadow puppets, operas, etc. are performed on the big stage every day, while puppets, children's plays and other programs are performed on the small stage in turn. At the same time, folk flower parties and lion dance performances were staged in turns at South Gate Square and the island in the middle of the lake.
Location: Daguanyuan Park 6, Phoenix Ridge New Year Garden Party
The Phoenix Ridge New Year Garden Party has rich and colorful cultural activities, more than 30 intangible cultural heritage projects, and dozens of exciting entertainment projects. , fun programs and experiences, feel the strong New Year flavor of old Beijing, and have a fancy New Year!
Address: No. 19 Fenghuangling Road, Sujiatuo Town, Haidian District 7. Hongluo Temple Fair
Hongluo Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, perfectly integrates folk culture, traditional festivals, temple culture, leisure and health care. The activities are more diverse and the content is richer, including gardening and praying, local culture, and mass interaction. , cultural performances, intangible cultural heritage displays and other themed activities that are popular with the common people, have high participation, and are highly interesting, we will accompany you to spend the New Year with you.
Location: Huairou Hongluo Temple 8, Lotus Pond Temple Fair
The Lotus Pond Temple Fair is a platform for "protecting intangible cultural heritage and promoting national culture". The temple fair not only displays folk A series of folk culture such as handicrafts and folk unique skills are also reproduced through activities such as snack tasting, market viewing, unique skills viewing, flower competitions and other activities to recreate the customs and styles of old Beijing.
A series of folk culture such as Han folk handicrafts, folk unique skills, folk collections, and folk flower parties are gathered from all directions. Through snack tasting, market viewing, unique skills viewing, flower competitions and other activities, old Beijing is recreated Market customs.
Location: Lianhuachi Park, No. 48, Lianhuachi Road, Fengtai District