Introduction to the interesting times, places and activities of the Henan Spring Festival Temple Fair

The Spring Festival is coming. There are many temple fairs here in Henan, waiting for everyone to participate. But among all these temple fairs, which one should we choose is more fun? I believe you are also very curious, so let’s learn about these temple fairs first! Then choose what you like!

Kaifeng Long Live Mountain Spring Festival Temple Fair

Time: New Year's Day to the 16th day of the first lunar month

Location: The middle section of Tokyo Avenue, Kaifeng City

Kaifeng Wan The Shoushan Spring Festival Temple Fair takes "inheriting classics and awakening the flavor of the New Year" as its starting point. It incorporates many popular elements on the basis of traditional folk temple fairs, and focuses on the three aspects of "strong flavor of the New Year, strong lineup, and wide audience" to create winter characteristics that are different from traditional temple fairs. cultural activities. After more than ten years of development, it has become the most influential temple fair in the Central Plains region. Previous temple fairs have attracted more than one million visitors. As the leading tourist activity in Kaifeng during the Spring Festival over the years, the temple fair has been reported by many central media and praised by the media as "the most valuable temple fair in the Central Plains and the most attractive temple fair in China." Kaifeng Wanshou Mountain Spring Festival Temple Fair fully integrates excellent folk resources from all over the country and vigorously promotes traditional folk culture. Invite millions of performing arts groups at home and abroad to join, such as flying cars, lion dances, operas, singing and dancing, acrobatics, animal taming, etc. Nearly a hundred programs are overwhelming, and with its characteristics of "strong lineup, high specifications, comprehensive tastes, and wide audience", it has become an annual cultural event loved by domestic and foreign tourists during the Spring Festival.

Zhengzhou City God Temple Fair

Time: New Year’s Day to the 16th day of the first lunar month

Address: North side of the east section of Shangcheng Road, Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou City God Temple Located on the north side of the east section of Shangcheng Road, Zhengzhou City, it was originally called Huang Chengling Youhou Temple. There is no exact record in the literature when this temple was built. City God, also called City God Lord in some places, is one of the most important gods in ancient Chinese religious culture. Most are played by famous ministers and heroes who have made contributions to the local people. They are the city-guarding gods believed in by Chinese folk and Taoists. After several years of development and excavation, we reported the City God Temple on the basis of the original culture. From New Year's Day to the 16th day of the first lunar month, we celebrate gongs and drums, lion dance, stilt walking, face changing, acrobatics, magic, monkey shows, etc. In the backyard of the Chenghuang Temple, folk craft exhibitions and free learning activities were held. The City God Temple has long-term exhibitions of Henan opera art exhibitions, City God culture, series of clay sculptures of the sixty-flowered armor gods, and murals of the City God's pilgrimage, etc.

In recent years, the Town God's Temple, which carries profound historical and cultural heritage, has gradually become an important folk culture area in the old city of Zhengzhou. From New Year's Day to the 16th day of the first lunar month, the Chenghuang Temple holds celebration activities such as gongs and drums, lion dancing, stilt walking, face-changing, acrobatics, magic, and monkey shows. In the backyard of the City God Temple, there will be folk craft demonstrations and free learning activities. The City God Temple has long-term exhibitions of Henan opera art exhibitions, City God culture, series of clay sculptures of the sixty-flowered armor gods, and murals of the City God's pilgrimage, etc.

Zhoukou Taihao Mausoleum Temple Fair

Time: February 2nd to March 3rd of the lunar calendar.

Address: Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City

The Tailing Temple Fair is an ancient traditional folk custom and folk religious and cultural activity. Commonly known as the local ancestral hall. According to research, Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum was built in the Spring and Autumn Period, and a shrine was built in front of the mausoleum in the Han Dynasty. The Hao Fuxi Mausoleum covers an area of ??more than 36 hectares, and its magnificent scale and majestic architecture have amazed the world. The momentum and duration of the Tailing Temple Fair are unique to temple fairs in the Central Plains. It lasts for one month from February 2nd to March 3rd of the lunar calendar every year. It expresses the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, avoid disasters and pray for blessings.

During the temple fair, various traditional temple fairs

The ancient temple fair in Junxian County lasts for a full month from the first day of the first lunar month to the second day of the second lunar 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. The first ancient temple fair in North China, which attracts people, opens up financial resources, and enhances the quality of temple fairs, has transformed from a single pilgrimage activity into a festival event for material exchange, cultural exchange, and inheritance of ancient national culture and art. People come to the temple fair to buy folk art and taste the flavor. Have snacks and watch traditional art performances. Visiting temple fairs and enjoying folk customs in the first month of the New Year has become the theme of temple fairs and a happy thing that city tourists yearn for.

A grand temple fair is held in Jun County every year on the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the first lunar month. At the temple fair, visitors can feast their eyes on Taishi's chair and enjoy colorful folk social fire performances such as three-tiered stilts, lion dance, drum dance, Yangko, and high-altitude land boat rolling. In order to build the brand of the ancient temple fair in the first month of Junxian County and expand the scale of the tourism economy, the Junxian County Party Committee and the county government held 10 folk art performances, Central Plains folk craft performances, and blessing ceremonies with the theme of "Visiting temple fairs in the first month of the year and worshiping the Buddha in Junxian County". , Lantern Festival Auspicious Lantern Festival, Central Plains Folk Culture Seminar and other activities have been well received by the masses. The Junxian Temple Fair is a folk entertainment activity that integrates folk art, religious beliefs, material exchanges, and cultural entertainment.

Hebi Junxian Temple Fair

Time: the first day of the first lunar month to the second day of the second lunar month.

Address: Southwest of the ancient city of Shangqiu

Every Spring Festival, the most popular place in Shangqiu is the Fire Temple. As a traditional folk belief and folk cultural activity, it has its own unique influence. The Spring Festival Temple Fair at Shangqiu Fire Temple has a profound cultural heritage and has a history of more than 2,000 years. It has the theme of "displaying traditional culture and reproducing folk customs". During the temple fair, various cultural and artistic programs were presented, and the traditional folklore programs were breathtaking.

Huotai Temple Fair is the oldest and grandest temple fair in Shangqiu.

It's called "Taiwan Intersection", also called "Tide Platform". It is a grand temple fair that evolved from people worshiping their ancestors, the God of Fire. It has a history of more than 4,000 years. Today, Vulcan Terrace has developed into a grand cultural and material exchange event, where various folk arts, handicrafts, unique skills, agricultural tools, black and white goods, and fancy costumes gather together. During the Spring Festival, you can listen to operas, watch social fires, worship the God of Fire, and experience folk customs at the Fire God Temple.

Shangqiu Huoshentai Temple Fair

Time: From the second day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Address: Jidu Temple, Jiyuan City

The annual Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair in Jidu Temple is the largest cultural event with wide influence, long tradition and scale in northern Henan. It is the largest cultural temple fair among the "four capitals" temples in China, and is also a national, open and public welfare large-scale temple fair cultural activity. The temple fair was held from January 28, 2008 (the first day of the first lunar month) to February 11 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month) at Jidu Temple, a national key cultural relic protection unit. With the theme of "Welcoming the New Year, enjoying blessings, ensuring safety, and celebrating the New Year happily", this temple fair continues to adhere to the cultural concepts of public welfare, openness, and enjoyment, and uses traditional culture, highlighting folk characteristics, and activating folk literature and art as the carrier to provide services to the people of the city. Organize a positive, civilized and fashionable Spring Festival cultural event.

Jiyuan Jidu Temple Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair

Time: the 29th of the twelfth lunar month to the 16th of the first lunar month

Address: No. 2 Guanlin South Street, Luoyang City

The Linchun Festival Temple Fair is a traditional folk activity in my country, integrating sacrifice, singing and dancing, entertainment, and commerce. For thousands of years, Guan Gong has been regarded as the embodiment of loyalty and a moral model, and is universally admired by people. 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-level and earliest Guandi Temple in my country. It is also the only ancient classic building complex in my country that combines forest and temple. H

010-10:10 Time: January 27th to 29th

Address: Huaxian County, Anyang City

According to historical records, the Daokou Ancient Temple Fair on the first lunar month It originated in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years. By then, Daokou had become an influential market town. The town is densely populated, has many shops, merchant ships, and merchants, and has developed commerce and a prosperous economy. At that time, people lived among open fires, and fires could easily occur if they were not careful. In order to ward off disasters, people worshiped the god of fire. At that time, it was very popular to build temples and invite "fire gods". Especially on the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month every year, it is said that this day is the birthday of the God of Fire. It is compulsory for all shops and people in all streets and alleys to buy foils, incense and candles as well as offerings. In front of the fire god statue or fire temple, burn incense, light candles, and burn tin foil to make sacrifices. In this way, the gods rejoiced and prayed for favor.

After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the ancient temple fair has now evolved into a unique and out-and-out carnival in Huaxian County. "Daokou Fire Temple" is the last temple fair in the first lunar month in North China, and it is also a concentrated expression of folk culture. It was once rated as "Henan Folk Classic". There are countless wonderful folk performances in ancient temple fairs, such as social fire performances, monkey playing, snake playing, darts, and traditional ring-tying games, which attract people's attention. Fried jelly, bamboo leaf rice dumplings, candied haws, roasted beef, and yellow sausages are all mouth-watering snacks. I've looked at places in the southeast, northwest, and it's better to go around the intersection. "This is the local people's evaluation of the ancient temple fair in the first lunar month of Daokou.

Luoyang Guanlin Temple Fair

Time: the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Address: Kaiyuan Scenic Area Heshang Street Ancient Town

Traditional folk culture, rare folk unique skills, more than 40 intangible heritage inheritance and performances. At the same time, the "Buyi Lane" snack street on Shanghe Street officially opened during the Spring Festival, bringing together the flavors of the north and the south. , a selection of special delicacies from all over the country. Folk customs, charming light shows, and a feast for the tongue, this Chinese New Year is a feast for the eyes! The Lantern Festival and the Temple Fair are located in the Kaiyuan Scenic Area on Taishan South Road in the city, with convenient transportation for self-driving tourists. , get off at Luohe West Station, only two kilometers away from the scenic spot

Anyang Daokou Fire Temple Festival

Time: New Year's Day to the 16th of the first lunar month

Address: Shangtang Village, Zhaocun Township, Lushan County, Pingdingshan City

Intangible cultural heritage inheritors and arts and crafts masters from paper-cutting, miniature sculptures, dough sculptures, clay sculptures, shadow puppets, sugar blowers, facial makeup, diabolo, foreign movies, pyrography, Among the dozens of intangible cultural heritage items such as comics, magic, wood carvings, paste cloth, cloth, eggs, sugar figures, windmills, walnuts, manes, gold paint inlays, etc.,

there are dazzling cross talk, sketches, Magic, acrobatics, singing and dancing, drama. Many professional performance groups take turns taking the stage, and there will be surprises on the stage every day. This year there will be intangible cultural heritage performances, exhibitions, New Year blessing ceremonies, life release ceremonies and other activities.

Have you chosen your favorite temple fair activity? Aren't these great? In fact, these temple fairs each have their own characteristics. The best temple fair is the one you choose!