What is the origin of the temple fair on February 2?

February 2 nd Temple Fair Source: February 2 nd, when the dragon looked up. After the Spring Festival, February 2nd is the first important day of the year. At this time, everything recovered, the earth was full of vitality, people were full of hope and prayed for heaven, so the so-called largest temple fair in Huaiyang was born.

Taihaoling Temple Fair in Huaiyang, Henan Province originated more than 6000 years ago. According to historical records, Fuxi, the ancestor of Chinese mankind, opened the prelude of Chinese civilization here. Taihaoling Temple Fair starts on February 2nd and ends on March 3rd of the lunar calendar every year. The temple fair lasts for one month. The temple fair in Taihaoling, Huaiyang is full of incense and grand scale. In 2008, it set a Guinness World Record of 820,000 tourists per day, which made the world sit up and take notice.

Temple fair activities:

There are many kinds of folk entertainment activities in Taihaoling Temple Fair. Compared with other temple fairs, the temple fair in Taihaoling is more abundant and has a stronger cultural atmosphere. At the temple fair, we can see groups of women dressed in black, carrying flower baskets on their shoulders, flapping bamboo boards while dancing and singing. Sometimes they are impassioned and sometimes they sing in a low voice. This kind of dance is called reciting classics, and most of them are elderly women.

Holding high the yellow silk Qinglong flag, they came to Taihao Mausoleum from all directions, first to worship their ancestors, and then performed in front of Tiantongtang, Renxiantang and Fuxi Mausoleum. Women should not be passed on to men, which is a rule handed down from ancient times. It has been popular in Huaiyang for thousands of years. It is a legacy preserved by the dance sacrifice media in primitive society. It is a form of worship that integrates ancestor worship, spiritual entertainment and seeking children. It is the evolution of primitive witch dance and the unique witch dance in Huaiyang.

At the end of the dance, the dancers walked back to back in the middle with their tails touching, symbolizing the intersection of Fuxi and Nu Wa, and their lyrics were mostly related to Fuxi and Nu Wa. This form of worship is related to the prevalence of witchcraft and witchcraft dance in ancient Chen State.