Changfeng Wushan Temple Fair

Anhui
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The Wushan Temple Fair, the birthplace of the Wushan Temple Fair, has a great influence on the temple fair activities in Wushan Town, Changfeng County, and its radiation areas include the county, Feidong, Feixi, Huainan, Lu'an and other surrounding counties and cities. Wushan Ancient Town has a long history and rich cultural heritage. Since ancient times, the people here are simple and honest, the people are moderate and harmonious, and they go with the flow, which is easy for the folk culture to breed and multiply. There are many cultural relics, sites and relics above and below the ground around the ancient town. The "Wushan Temple Fair" takes the "Wuwang Temple" as the core, and the surrounding squares and open spaces as the venue for activities. Around the second day of the second lunar month every year, it is mainly for worshiping rituals and burning incense to worship Buddha. It organizes or spontaneously carries out various art performances, entertainment, sports acrobatics, commodity circulation, science and technology books and periodicals, tourism publicity, local snacks, etc., which integrates sales, exchanges, participation and observation of folk culture and trade activities. According to historical records, the "Wushan Temple Fair" has been popular as early as the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the number of monks in the temple gradually increased, and the incense became more and more popular, which led to the "Wushan Temple Fair" on the second day of the second lunar month. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, "Dragon Raises its Head", good men and women burn incense and worship Buddha, and various commercial activities are held inside and outside the temple. In 1952, the statues in the temple were destroyed, and the temple wing was converted into a primary school classroom. In 1982, led by the Wushan Town Government and organized by the Town Cultural Station, the "Wushan Temple Fair" regained its vitality and incense became popular again. Today, the Wushan Temple Fair uses folk culture as a stage and economic and trade activities as a play, becoming an important cultural brand to promote local social and economic development. This series of activities, which uses temple fairs as a carrier, folk culture and folk culture as content, and displays local humanities and folk customs, has become a temple fair economic and cultural model with merchants, a large flow of people, a prosperous market, and brisk sales. The "Wushan Temple Fair" has distinct characteristics of the times, significant regional characteristics, rich and colorful cultural characteristics, and extensive mass participation.

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