Temple Fair Characteristics of Taihaoling Temple Fair

During the temple fair, various Han folk entertainment activities are even more fascinating. Among them, juggling. There are many performances, such as lions, dragon lanterns, bamboo horses and dry boats. The ancestral temple fair in Tai Wuling. It is also an exhibition of Han folk entertainment. "Compared with other temple fairs, there are two very unique temple fair customs in Taiwuling. First, there is a relatively primitive dance of offering sacrifices to ancestors and pleasing gods, also called "carrying flower baskets". During the temple fair, you can see the "selected teams" who come to Tai Wuling to pray for their ancestors every day. These "selected teams" sang and danced in front of Tai Wuling, attracting many good men and women who came to pilgrimage to stop and watch. Four people in each class, three carrying baskets, one playing bamboo board, dancing in the form of several songs, three pairs picking six kinds of baskets, dancing and singing. The dancers are all dressed in black, with big black waist trousers, leg wraps and black embroidered shoes. Their heads are wrapped in a black gauze head nearly 1 meter long, and the lower edge of the head has ears 6 cm long. Most dancers are elderly women.

Flower basket dance originated from unknown time, and it is said that it is a primitive sacrificial dance handed down from Wangulong Flower Festival. There is no definite solution to the Wan Gu Long Flower Festival. Legend has it that Fuxi is a big dragon and Nu Wa is a little dragon. This flower show may be related to ancestors. The flower basket dance was handed down from women to men, mainly to entertain people's ancestors and care for Nu Wa (there used to be a Loi Wo Temple in Taihaoling). When "Flower Basket" was in full swing, the dancers passed back to back in the middle, and their bodies collided, symbolizing the intersection of Fuxi female snails. His lyrics are also related to Fuxi Nuwa. Some movements of this dance are basically consistent with the image of the dragon-headed Nuwa mating in the lower part of the Han Dynasty stone relief, which is the original custom of reproductive worship.

The second unique place is that the temple fair is full of "mud dogs". Mud dog, also known as "the dog of Tai Wuling" and "the dog of Ling", is a kind of mud toy sold at the temple fair. Every year, the temple fair in Tai Wuling is a dazzling array of mud dog stalls. These clay toys have various shapes, including pigeons, snakes, frogs, unicorns, two-headed dogs, monkeys with faces, peach monkeys, straw hats, tigers, turtles and swallows. Its image is exaggerated, and its expression is different, which is implied in Gu Zhuo. According to textual research, these clay toys are living cultural relics in the late primitive society that have been passed down to this day. Some people think that these clay toys are the custom of "squeezing clay figurines" left by Fuxi Nuwa after her marriage.

Temple Fair in Taihaoling, a cultural phenomenon, has many primitive cultural colors, many things worth studying and mysteries to be solved.