The 2023 Longhua Temple Fair will be held from April 29 to May 2 at Longhua Square, Xuhui District, Shanghai.
Longhua Temple Fair is one of the traditional temple fairs with a long history and tradition in East China, which is a comprehensive temple fair combining commodity bazaar, folk beliefs and folk entertainment.The time of 2023 Longhua Temple Fair is from April 29 to May 2 at Longhua Square, Xuhui District, Shanghai.
As one of the cultural and tourism activities launched to the public and tourists in Shanghai during the May 1 period, the 2023 Longhua Temple Fair, with the theme of "Miaohui - New Life", will bring together traditional folklore and non-legacy classics as well as innovative content of the Haikai school, and the site of the national style of dance, folklore sugar painting, non-legacy grass weaving and so on, which attracted a lot of citizens and tourists to come to visit and experience.
Shanghai's first neighborhood commercial Longhua Club, which looks out over a thousand-year-old temple, gathered specialty stores and presented the "Miaohui Longhua" themed area in the marketplace, which carries on the culture of non-folklore, and built a "heavy eaves and sloped roof" style shop with "peach blossom flowers in spring" as the clue. The theme area of "Miaohui Longhua" will be presented in the marketplace, and the "Spring Peach Blossom" will be used as a clue to build a "heavy eaves and sloping roofs" style marketplace booth, which will "revitalize" the Millennium Longhua Temple Fair.
Longhua ancient temple will burn the first incense
Longhua ancient temple will be the first day of the lunar calendar, March 3, this day is Maitreya's incarnation of the monk's nirvana, the Longhua Temple to hold a grand commemoration of the ceremony, to do all the family members of the water and land dojo. Maitreya is the future Buddha, so the public incense is mostly seeking the next life after life, there is a "burn Longhua incense, cast a good father and mother," the proverb. The old custom of Longhua Temple temple fair the day before the day, many believers rushed to Longhua Temple, sitting outside the temple overnight, the next morning to burn the first incense, in order to seek the blessing of the Bodhisattva spirit.
This custom is known as "burning incense". Longhua Temple burning incense custom is very prevalent, in addition to rush in the temple fair on the first day of burning incense, but also in the New Year's Eve night rush to burn the first incense of the new year. Believers believe that on the first day of the New Year, the first will be inserted in the temple incense burner, can bring themselves a whole year of good luck.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Temple Fairs (Shanghai Longhua Temple Fairs)