Xinyang Jigongshan New Year Temple Fair Time and Location

New Year’s Day is a smaller version of the Chinese Spring Festival. China’s biggest festival, the Spring Festival is coming soon! This year, will you just play mahjong at home and catch up on dramas? Today, I would also like to recommend a fun place to you. The first folk culture temple fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Xinyang, Henan will be held from the first day to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

The First Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and New Year Lantern Festival

Time: The first day of the first lunar month to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Location: Xinyang, Henan

Activities: Xinyang Jigong Mountain Scenic Area

Transportation Guide:

Jigong Mountain is 38 km from Xinyang City kilometer. The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway (Zhengwu High-speed Railway) stop at Xinyang Station and Xinyang East High-speed Railway Station. To visit Jigong Mountain, you usually take a bus from Xinyang, which takes an hour. If you go by train, you can get off at Jigongshan Station and then take a bus to go up the mountain. However, Jigongshan Station is just a small station. Generally express trains do not stop. Pay more attention when choosing a car. There are two climbing routes. One is to drive up the mountain along Pan Highway, which is 9 kilometers in total. The other is to hike up the mountainside, which is only 4 kilometers in total. The terrain on the mountain is flat and there are hotels, restaurants, department stores, post offices and other service facilities.

Ticket: 72 yuan

Opening hours: 24 hours

Attraction location:

Chicken, No. 171 Zongmin Middle Road, He District, Xinyang City Inside the Gongshan National Scenic Area

Introduction to the temple fair

This is the first Spring Festival temple fair held in Jigong Mountain, Henan.

Temple fairs have always been the best place in China to climb mountains and pray for blessings with family and friends in the New Year. Jigong Mountain Scenic Area integrates scenic area resources this time to create a New Year cultural feast for tourists.

Hundreds of delicacies will be gathered at the temple fair, as well as wonderful Henan classic folk performances.

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Going to temple fairs in the first month of the year, walking, playing and eating are definitely very important contents.

This year’s Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and New Year Lantern Festival not only retains the Chinese characteristics on the tip of the tongue: hundreds of new delicacies such as Yunnan Flower Cake, Guizhou Huajia Fen, and Taiwanese Ajiajian are gathered together. It also adds world-class delicacies and exotic flavors: Japanese sushi, Brazilian barbecue, magic ice cream, etc. This allows tourists to enjoy a gourmet meal even if they cannot leave the country.

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Folk performing arts must also be exciting and have constant highlights.

The first Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and New Year Lantern Festival will be accompanied by delicious food, dragon and lion dances and juggling, as well as gongs and drums, sedan chairs, hydrangea throwing, stilt walking, dramatic face-changing and other activities. Various traditional folk performances will be presented here.

The most stunning night performances such as the thousand-year-old iron flower, Sichuan opera face-changing, and gorgeous light shows create a sleepless night in Jigong Mountain for tourists.

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The last and most exciting thing is the activity of blacksmithing.

The New Year Lantern Festival Blacksmith Flower invites folk masters to perform thousand-year-old stunts.

The fire flows like gold, the stars splash like electricity, the winter night is really crystal clear, and the flowers and trees are sparse.

In the first lunar month, Jigong Mountain welcomes the Lantern Festival, and let’s be romantic together to the end.

This year’s Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival combines the cultural characteristics of Jigongshan with a large-scale Spring Festival themed lantern show: Golden Pig Spring Festival themed lanterns, beautiful Jigongshan themed lanterns, and Paige Paradise themed lanterns.

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The fantastic and colorful lights reflect the strong flavor of the New Year in Jigong Mountain. It’s a new year. If you want to have a more prosperous year, how can you lack New Year blessings! Seek peace at the Living Buddha Temple and pray for good luck at the Linghua Temple. When you come to Jigong Mountain in the New Year, you must bring New Year blessings and cheer for the coming year together.