Changdian, a traditional temple fair

This is all the temple fairs in Beijing this year:

■ Longtan Temple Fair

Time: February 6, 2117 (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month) to February 24, 2117 (the 7th day of the first lunar month)

Location: Longtan Park

Ticket price: group advance ticket 5 yuan (with date restrictions.

Temple Fair Features:

The theme of this year's Longtan Temple Fair is "Harmonious Chongwen Happy Longtan". There are more than 161 interactive and participatory activities such as culture, sports and entertainment in 8 categories. In addition, "Fuwa", the spirit of the Olympic Games, will welcome the New Year with tourists. There will be many world champions on the competitive stage of the whole park. In addition, the old Beijing hawking and street customs, which have disappeared for nearly 51 years, will also appear in the intangible cultural heritage theater.

It is divided into several categories: sports activities ★ literary and cultural activities ★ folk customs activities ★ popular science entertainment activities ★ "The characteristics of commercial snacks highlight five characteristic streets with different styles.

@ Honglou Temple Fair

Time: February 8, 2117 (the first day of the first month) to February 23, 2117 (the sixth day of the first month)

Location: in and around the Grand View Garden

Ticket price: group price: 8 yuan; During the temple fair, all the money will be RMB 11

Temple Fair Features:

In this year's Red House Temple Fair, in addition to reappearing the grand scene of the costume parade of "Yuan Fei's Mothering", the Grand View Garden will also show Chinese and foreign tourists the lively scene of the traditional wedding ceremony "Baoyu Married" and the birthday banquet ceremony "Jia Mu Congratulates his birthday" for the first time to serve the society, which is not only an innovation, but also adds a festive and beautiful landscape to the Spring Festival Temple Fair. Honglou cuisine and snacks with old Beijing flavor are also a highlight of this year's Honglou Temple Fair. In the sunshine hall of the Red Mansion Banquet Hotel, waiters dressed in ancient costumes will show you the exquisite snacks in the "Red Mansion Banquet"-Xiaozongzi, auspicious fruit, Ruyi cake and Taijunsu, which are rare in the Red Mansion on weekdays.

■ ditan temple fair

Time: February 17-February 24, 2117 (from the 31th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 7th day of the first lunar month)

Location: ditan park, Beijing

Ticket price: 11 yuan

Features of the temple fair:

In 2117, ditan temple fair set up a lecture hall and photography art around Fangzetan. During the temple fair, the organizing Committee will hold exhibitions of folk handicrafts such as Tianjin clay figurine Zhang, Shaanxi Fengxiang clay sculpture and Shandong Weifang New Year pictures. Liu Yida and other seven famous folk culture experts in Beijing will tell visitors about the customs of the traditional New Year Festival with a new topic every day; On the fourth day of the year, Professor Yang Fengchi, a famous psychologist, will answer the doubts of the masses on the spot on issues such as children's education and elderly loneliness. The organizing Committee also invited experts to identify the treasures collected by the masses on the spot for free. During the temple fair, cultural, sports and recreational activities such as solve riddles on the lanterns, Diabolo and Cuqiu will also be held.

■ Chaoyang Park Foreign Temple Fair (namely, Beijing Chaoyang International Wind Festival)

Time: February 8, 2117 (the first day of the first month) to February 24, 2117 (the seventh day of the first month)

Location: Beijing Chaoyang Park

Ticket price: retail ticket 11 yuan/person; Group ticket to 8 yuan/person

Temple Fair features:

Showing exotic customs and creating a passionate journey is the style pursued by every festival. Elite artists from Britain, Germany, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Russia, Norway, Burundi, Australia and other countries have brought wonderful performances, and so far more than 211 foreign artists have participated. Yunnan, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other domestic ethnic customs have also become the characteristics of previous wind plots.

■ Changdian Temple Fair

Time: February 8, 2117 (the first day of the first month) to February 23, 2117 (the sixth day of the first month)

Location: from the intersection of Heping Gate, South Xinhua Street, Xuanwu District, to the cultural square of Hufang Road via the intersection of Hufang Bridge

Temple Fair features: the unique entertainment atmosphere of Changdian is also very attractive, with stilts and Taiping drums. Flavor snacks represented by sugar-coated haws are not to be missed. Liulichang is particularly lively in the first month.

■ Beijing Lianhuachi Temple Fair

Time: February 8, 2117 (the first day) to February 23, 2117 (the sixth day)

Location: Lianhuachi Park

Ticket price: 6 yuan (children under 1.2m are free, with student ID card and half price for senior citizen card)

Temple Fair features:

Seventh. Further build the brand of Lotus Pond folk culture, fully explore and display a series of folk culture such as folk handicrafts, folk unique skills, folk collections, and folk flower fairs, and reproduce the folk customs and features of old Beijing through activities such as snacks, market viewing, unique skills watching and flower fairs. Make Lianhuachi Temple Fair a platform for "protecting intangible cultural heritage and promoting national culture", so that everyone can continuously understand national culture, gradually carry forward national traditional culture, and gradually build "Lianhuachi Temple Fair" into a brand temple fair.

■ Dongyue Temple Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair

Time: February 17, 2117 (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month) to February 24, 2117 (the seventh day of the first lunar month)

Location: Dongyue Temple in Chaoyang District

Ticket price: 11 yuan, group 8 yuan

Temple Fair Features:

"Where is the good place to pray? Passers-by refer to Dongyue. "Fu" culture has become the core and feature of Dongyue Temple Fair, which has a history of at least 311 years. Dongyue Temple, located in Chaoyangmenwai Street, was built in the sixth year of Yanyou in Yuan Dynasty (1319), covering an area of 71 mu. It is the largest temple of orthodox Taoism in North China. The whole temple is divided into three parts: the main courtyard and the east and west Taoist courtyards. Along the central axis, there are seven buildings, such as Dongmenlou, Zhandaimen, Daiyue Hall, Yude Hall and Hougailou. The layout is rigorous and magnificent. The temple is dedicated to the God of Mount Tai, Dongyue the Great and other gods, with nearly a thousand statues, and there are still 12 statues of three officials and officials carved with golden nanmu in the seventeenth year of Chenghua (1485). The number of stone tablets in the temple ranks first among all the temples in Beijing, reaching more than 141. The most famous one is "Zhang Liusun Daoxing Tablet" written by Zhao Mengfu, a calligrapher in Yuan Dynasty. Dongyue Temple has been turned into Beijing Folk Museum since 1995.

■ Baiyunguan Temple Fair

Time: from the first day of the first month to the sixth day of the first month (February 17-February 23, 2117)

Location: Baiyunguan Temple in Xicheng District

Ticket price: 11 yuan

Temple Fair Features:

Baiyunguan Temple is located outside Xibianmen in Beijing, east of Baiyun Road outside Fuxingmen, and is the largest Taoist temple in Beijing. In the old age, the main activities of opening the temple in the first month of Baiyun Temple are "meeting immortals", "following the stars", "playing with money" and "touching stone monkeys" and so on. It is said that touching a stone monkey can make you "knighted and marquis", and you have "official luck". The women "tied dolls" before seeing off their sons and daughters in Yuanjun Temple in order to pray for the birth of their sons in the coming year. People who are sick burn incense and worship before the king of medicine, praying for an early recovery. Everyone's wishes are simple and simple. There is also a very pleasant activity to visit Baiyun Temple. At present, Baiyun Temple is the seat of Chinese Taoist Association.

■ Hongluo Temple Fair

Time: from the first day of the first month to the seventh day of the first month (February 18-February 24, 2117)

Location: Hongluo Temple Scenic Area

Ticket price: 31 yuan

Temple Fair features:

Worship the Buddha, bump auspicious bells, play with money, snacks, calligraphy and painting photography exhibition, etc.