"Sending the Great Heat Boat" is a comprehensive folk activity that integrates the Five Saints ceremony and folk art performances, which is held in the fishing villages of Jiaojiang Jiazhi from the Lesser Heat to the Greater Heat solar term every year. The activity hub is the five temples with the Five Saints Temple as the core, involving Xingguang Village, Xingming Village, Wuzhou Village and other villages. It starts from the fourth month of the lunar calendar and ends on the day of the Great Heat, with a time span of three months. More than 100,000 people participate. In addition to Taizhou, people from Ningbo in the north and Wenzhou in the south will come. Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City is located in the eastern part of Zhejiang Province. Jiazhi Street is located on the south bank of Taizhou Bay. It is an alluvial plain at the mouth of Jiaojiang River. It has developed agriculture and belongs to the mid-subtropical monsoon zone. It has distinct four seasons, abundant precipitation, abundant heat and rain and heat in the same season. From July to September every year, typhoons often land, and meteorological disasters such as waterlogging and wind disasters are frequent. During this period, the Sending the Great Heat Boat activity is held to pray for a safe summer. The written records of sending off the Great Heat Boat can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty at the latest. Scholar Yu Yue recorded in detail the process of sending off the Great Heat Boat in Linhai (at that time, Jiaojiang belonged to Linhai) in his "Notes of Youtai Xianguan". "A few days before the Great Heat, a large Taoist temple was built. On the Great Heat Day, the boat was sent out to sea and allowed to go wherever it wanted. It was commonly called the Great Heat Boat." The specific content of sending off the Great Heat Boat is divided into the construction of the Great Heat Boat, welcoming the saints on the Lesser Heat Festival, inviting wine, and sending off the boat on the Great Heat. The largest scale of the activities is mainly held on the Great Heat Festival of the lunar calendar. Under the command of several prestigious elders in Xingguang Village, where the Five Saints Temple is located, dozens of young and strong villagers carried the prepared Great Heat Boat from the Five Saints Temple and sent it to the beach by the river. The summer send-off team marched along the street, carrying the "Five Saints" and local gods and statues and shrines in colorful sedan chairs, and performing traditional folk programs along the way, such as dragon and lion dances, selling sugar poles, carrying pavilions, drifting lake boats, local operas, etc., and tens of thousands of believers and pilgrims prayed for "sending off the summer peace" along the way. After setting up an altar for worship on the riverside, the statues of the Five Saints were enshrined in the shrine on the Great Heat Boat. When the time came, the Great Heat Boat was towed by a fishing boat to the mouth of Jiaojiang River and burned on the ocean. The "Sending the Great Heat Boat" activity is a carrier of the symbiotic evolution of the agricultural civilization of the 24 solar terms and the local (ocean) culture of Jiaojiang, and is a powerful witness to the inheritance of the customs of the 24 solar terms among the people. It is spontaneously organized and consciously participated in by local people, reflecting the unique charm and wisdom of local folk art and handicrafts, embodying the people's desire to "drive away evil spirits and pray for peace", and reflecting their hope to conform to nature, respect nature, and live in harmony with nature. It is a living and concentrated presentation of the local folk culture of Taizhou Bay. It not only has a deep and broad regional folk cultural ecological background, extensive folk participation and radiation, but also has the practical significance of uniting ethnic groups and enriching the spiritual life of the people. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)