Kaifeng Vanshoushan Spring Festival Temple Fair
Time: New Year's Day to the sixteenth day of the first month
Location: Kaifeng City, Tokyo Avenue in the middle
Kaifeng Vanshoushan Spring Festival Temple Fair "inheritance of the classics, awakening the flavor of the year" as a starting point, in the traditional folk temple fair on the basis of a number of popular elements. Around the "strong flavor of the year, strong lineup, audience" three aspects to create a different from the traditional temple fair of winter characteristics of cultural activities. After more than ten years of development, it has become the most influential temple fair in the Central Plains. Previous temple fairs have attracted more than one million visitors. As the leading activity of Kaifeng Tourism in Spring Festival in the past years, the temple fair has been reported by a number of central media, and has been praised as "the most valuable temple fair in Central Plains and the most attractive temple fair in China". Kaifeng Wanshoushan Spring Festival Temple Fair fully integrates excellent folk resources from all over the world and vigorously promotes traditional folk culture. Millions of performing arts groups at home and abroad are invited to join in, such as flying cars, lion dance, opera, song and dance, acrobatics, animal taming and so on. Nearly one hundred programs spread all over the world, with its "strong lineup, high specifications, full flavors, wide audience" characteristics, become the annual cultural activities of domestic and foreign tourists during the Spring Festival.
City God Temple in Zhengzhou
Time: New Year's Day to the first month of the 16th
Address: Zhengzhou City Road, east of the north
City God Temple is located in Zhengzhou City, east of the north side of the east section of the road, the original name of the Huangcheng Lingyouhou Temple. When this temple was built, there is no exact record in the literature. City God, also called Lord City God in some places, is one of the most important gods in ancient Chinese religious culture. Most of them were played by famous ministers and heroes who had contributed to the local people. They are the gods of city guards believed in by Chinese folk and Taoism. After recent years of development and excavation, we have reported the City God Temple on the basis of the original culture. From New Year's Day to the 16th day of the first month, we celebrate gongs and drums, lion dances, stilt walkers, face-changing, acrobatics, magic and monkey shows. In the backyard of the City God Temple, folk craft exhibitions and free learning activities were held. The Chenghuang Temple has a permanent exhibition of Yu opera art, Chenghuang culture, a series of clay sculptures of the sixty flower goddesses, and murals of Chenghuang's parade.
In recent years, carrying a deep historical and cultural heritage of the City God Temple has gradually become an important folk culture area in the old city of Zhengzhou. From New Year's Day to the sixteenth day of the first month, the City God Temple will have celebrations of gongs and drums, lion dances, stilt walkers, face-changing, acrobatics, magic tricks, monkey plays and other activities. In the backyard of the City God Temple, there will be folk craft demonstrations and free learning activities. The Chenghuang Temple has long-term exhibits of Yu opera art exhibition, Chenghuang culture, a series of clay sculptures of the 60-flower god, and murals of Chenghuang's parade.
Zhoukou Taihao Mausoleum Temple Fair
Time: February 2 to March 3 of the lunar calendar.
Address: Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City
Tai Hao Mausoleum Temple Fair is an ancient traditional folklore and folk religious and cultural activities. Commonly known as the local shrine. According to evidence, Tai Hao Fuxi Mausoleum was built in the Spring and Autumn Period, and a shrine was built in front of the mausoleum in the Han Dynasty. Covering an area of more than 36 hectares, Hao Fuxi's mausoleum is admired by the world for its grand scale and majestic architecture. The prestige and duration of the Tailing Temple Fair is unique to the temple fairs in the Central Plains. It lasts for one month from February 2 to March 3 of the lunar calendar every year. It is the best wish of the Chinese working people to drive away evil spirits, avoid disasters and pray for good fortune.
During the temple fair, various traditional
The ancient temple fair in Joon County lasts for a whole month from the first day of the first month to the second day of the second month every year. Because of its early start, large scale and long duration, it is known as the first ancient temple fair in North China. Attract popularity, open up financial resources, enhance the taste of the temple, the first ancient temple fair in North China, has changed from a single pilgrimage activities, material exchanges, cultural exchanges, heritage of ancient ethnic culture and art festivals, people come to the temple fair to buy folk art, taste the flavor of snacks, watch the traditional art performances. Strolling around the temple fair in the first month of the new year and enjoying the folk customs have become the theme of the temple fair and a happy thing for city tourists to aspire to.
Jun County holds a grand temple fair on the 15th and 16th of the first month every year. At the temple fair, visitors can feast their eyes on the taiji chairs and enjoy the colorful folk social performances such as three-story people stacking stilts, lion dance, drum dance, rice-planting songs, and high-altitude rolling dry boat. In order to build the brand of the ancient temple fair in the first month of Joon County and expand the scale of tourism economy, the county party committee and county government of Joon County organized 10 folk art performances, folk crafts exhibition in the Central Plains, praying for blessings, auspicious lanterns in the Lantern Festival, and seminars on folk culture in the Central Plains under the theme of "temple fair in the first month and worshiping Buddha in Joon County", which were highly praised by the public. The Joon County Temple Fair is a folk entertainment activity integrating folk art, religious beliefs, material exchange and cultural entertainment.
Hebi Joon County Temple Fair
Time: The first day of the first month to the second day of the second month.
Address: southwest of the ancient city of Shangqiu
Every year in the Spring Festival, the most lively place in Shangqiu is the Fire God Temple. As a traditional folk belief and folk cultural activities, it has its unique influence. Shangqiu Fire God Temple Spring Festival Temple Fair has a deep cultural heritage, has a history of more than 2,000 years, to "show traditional culture, reproduce folklore" as the theme. During the temple fair, a variety of cultural and artistic programs, traditional folklore programs are breathtaking.
The Huotai Temple Fair is the oldest and grandest temple fair in Shangqiu. It is called "Taijiahui", also known as "Chaotai". It is a grand temple fair that evolved from people sacrificing to their ancestors, the Fire God, and has a history of more than 4,000 years. Nowadays, VulcanTerrace has developed into a grand cultural and material exchange event, where all kinds of folk arts, handicrafts, unique skills, agricultural tools, black and white goods, and strange costumes come together. During the Spring Festival, you can listen to grand opera, watch social fire, worship the fire god and experience folklore at the Fire God Temple.
Shangqiu Fire God Terrace Temple Fair
Time: The second day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month.
Address: Jidu Temple, Jiyuan City
Jidu Temple's annual Spring Festival Cultural Fair is a wide-ranging, long tradition and the largest cultural event in northern Henan. Is China's "four" temple in the largest cultural fair, but also national, open, public welfare of large-scale temple cultural activities. Temple in 2008 on January 28 (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar) to February 11 (the first month of the lunar calendar 15) in the national key cultural relics protection unit Jidu Temple held. This year's temple fair to "welcome the New Year, enjoy the blessings, to protect the peace, joy in the New Year" as the theme, continue to uphold the public welfare, open, *** enjoy the cultural concept of traditional culture, highlighting the characteristics of folklore, activation of folklore as a carrier for the people of the city to hold a positive, civilized and fashionable Spring Festival cultural activities.
Jiyuan Jidu Temple Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair
Time: Lunar New Year's Eve 29 to January 16
Address: No. 2, Guanlin South Street, Luoyang City
Lin the Spring Festival Temple Fair is China's traditional folklore activities, set rituals, songs and dances, entertainment, commerce and trade in one. For thousands of years, Guan Gong has been regarded as the embodiment of loyalty and a model of morality, and is universally admired. His spirit of loyalty and benevolence embodies the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. Luoyang Guanlin, the burial place of Guan Yu, is the highest-grade and earliest-built temple of Guan Di in China, and the only ancient classic architectural complex combining a forest and a temple in China.H
010-10:10Time: January 27-29
Address: Slide County, Anyang City
According to historical records, the Daokou New Year's Day Ancient Temple Fair originated in the late Sung and early Yuan Dynasties, and has had a more than 700 years of history. At that time, Daokou had already become an influential market town. The town was densely populated, with many stores, merchant ships and merchants, and was commercially developed and economically prosperous. At that time, people lived in the midst of open fire, which could easily cause fire if they were not careful. In order to eliminate disasters, people worshipped the god of fire. At that time, the practice of building temples to invite the "fire god" was very popular. Especially on the 29th day of the first month of the year, which is said to be the birthday of the God of Fire. All stores and people in all streets and alleys had to buy paper foil, incense and candles, and offerings. In front of the statue of the god of fire or the temple of the god of fire, incense is burned, candles are lit, and the tin foil is burned in worship. In this way, the gods rejoice and pray for favor.
After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the ancient temple fair has now evolved into a unique and uncompromising carnival in Huaxian County. "Daokou Fire Temple" is the last temple fair in the first month of the year in North China, and is also a concentrated manifestation of folk culture. It has been honored as "Henan Folk Classics". There are countless wonderful folk performances in the ancient temple fair, such as social fire performance, monkey playing, snake playing, dart playing, and traditional ring-tying games to attract people's attention. Cold noodles fried in oil, bamboo leaf dumplings, sugar gourds, beef on fire, yellow sausage. The flavorful snacks are mouth-watering. I've seen all the places in the southeast and northwest, it's better to go around the intersection. "This is the first month of Daokou locals on the ancient temple fair.
Luoyang Guanlin Temple Fair
Time: 1st to 15th of the first month.
Address: Kaiyuan Scenic Area and Shanghe Street Ancient Town
Traditional folk culture, rare folk skills, more than 40 non-genetic inheritance and performance. At the same time, Shanghe Street's "Buyi Lane" snack street was officially opened during the Spring Festival, bringing together the flavors of the north and south, selected from all over the country's specialties. Folk customs, charming light show, tongue feast, this New Year, tasty! Lantern and temple fair is located in downtown Taishan South Road, Kaiyuan scenic spot, convenient transportation. Self-driving tourists take Luo Ning Expressway, get off at Luohe West Station, only two kilometers from the scenic area.
Anyang Daokou Fire God Temple Fair
Time: New Year's Day to the sixteenth day of the first month
Address: Shangtang Village, Zhaocun Township, Lushan County, Pingdingshan City
Non-hereditary inheritors and masters of arts and crafts from the paper-cutting, micro-carving, face sculpting, clay sculpture, shadow puppets, blowing sugar, face painting, air-crackers, foreign films, branding, manga, magic, wood carving, gluing fabrics, cloths, eggs, sugar people, windmills
Among the dozens of non-heritage items, such as walnuts, manes and gold lacquer inlays,
there are dazzling comedies, sketches, magic tricks, acrobatics, songs, dances and dramas. Many professional performing groups take turns on stage, and there are surprises on stage every day. This year there will be an intangible cultural heritage show, exhibition and sale, a New Year's blessing puja and a life release puja.
Have you picked your favorite temple fair activities yet? Aren't these great? In fact, each of these temple fairs has its own characteristics, and the best one is the one you choose!