Yuntai Temple Fair

Sichuan
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Yuntai Temple Fair refers to a traditional, spontaneously organized mass worship activity that originated and prevailed in Yuntai Temple. The larger meetings are mainly held on the first day of the third lunar month, the eighteenth day of the fifth lunar month, and the nineteenth day of the sixth lunar month. They are called the Patriarch Meeting, the City God Meeting, and the Guanyin Meeting. Once the meeting is held, believers from all directions come to Yuntai Temple to pay homage and pray for blessings and peace. Yuntai Temple Fair is a general term for these three meetings, among which the City God Meeting is the largest. Its main activities include group incense burning, worship, and makeup. The Yuntai Temple Fair has developed in tandem with the architectural development of Yuntai Temple. Yuntai Temple has a history of 800 years since it was built in the second year of Kaixi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1206). With the improvement of the status and influence of Yuntai Temple, the incense and popularity of the temple fair have become more and more prosperous, becoming an indispensable part of the lives of the people in Santai, Zhongjiang, Daying and Shehong counties within a radius of 50 kilometers, and a festival in the minds of the majority of good men and women. With the acceleration of the development of Yuntai Temple, the traditional mass worship activities are increasingly restricted by time, space and environment, and are facing the danger of gradual extinction. Historical value: Yuntai Temple has a history of more than 800 years. The King of Shu in the Ming Dynasty sent personnel to supervise the construction of Yuntai Temple many times. By the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it had become a famous Taoist temple in Sichuan. There are many cultural relics and beautiful Taoist and folk legends around it. Such as the cliff tombs of the Han and Jin Dynasties, the ancient tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Seven Star Terrace of the Shu Han Ruins of the Three Kingdoms, and the "Jinjiang Jade Belt Lingquan Longjing, the Cicadas Singing in the Palm, the Qianyuan Scenic Spots, the Gongchen Qionglou, the Jade Seal Yaojie, the Thatched House Jinrong, the Tengxia Palace, the Wutong Night Moon, and the Crane Dance in the Cave Heaven" Yuntai Ten Scenes have greatly enriched the connotation of the Yuntai Temple Fair. Artistic value: The Yuntaiguan Temple Fair is a model of integrating folk beliefs in gods and spirits. It presents the City God Bodhisattva, Chicken Foot God, Wu Erye and others in mythology in the form of makeup, showing the activities and emotional expressions of gods and ghosts in another world, and embodying the people's yearning for a better life. As a folk temple fair, it comes from the people's belief needs and is rooted in the hearts of the vast number of people with good wishes. Its main forms of expression are: one is worship. When the statue of the City God Bodhisattva is ready to start and is called back to its "mother's home" by believers, the hall is filled with drums, firecrackers, candles, and incense; the second is makeup. When the City God Bodhisattva "returns to her mother's home", the Chicken Foot God and Wu Erye are on his left and right, and the little ghosts accompany him all the way. The momentum and scene are quite majestic and extremely spectacular. Information source: Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

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