The Hangjiahu Plain in the north of Zhejiang Province is the main silk production area in my country. The silkworm breeding and silk production here has a history of more than 4,700 years. Tongxiang is located in the north of Zhejiang Province and is the main silkworm production area in the south of the Yangtze River. There are rich silkworm customs in its countryside. Among them, the Zhacanhua Temple Fair (also known as the "Silkworm Flower Temple Fair") with the theme of worshiping the silkworm god and blessing the silkworm harvest is the most representative and collective. Among them, the most influential and largest is the Hanshan Zhacanhua Temple Fair. The custom of the Hanshan Zhacanhua Temple Fair has been passed down for a long time. According to the Tongxiang local chronicles, it has a history of more than 100 years. The so-called "silkworm flower" is paper flowers made of colorful crepe paper. "Zha" is a dialect word, which means squeezing. Legend has it that the Silkworm Flower Goddess turned into a village girl during the Qingming Festival and walked all over Hanshan, leaving "silkworm air" on the mountain. Whoever can go to Hanshan for an outing can bring the silkworm flower joy home and get the silkworm flower "24 points" (that is, double the harvest). Therefore, every Qingming Festival, silkworm farmers from all over the world compete to go to Hanshan. Young men and women put on festive costumes and go to the mountains to buy several silkworm flowers, which they either pin on their hair, hang on their chests, insert on the brim of their hats, or insert on sugarcane, and squeeze each other, making it very lively. The host of the family also carries a bag of silkworm seeds, which means to get the spirit of the silkworm god and pray for a good harvest of silk cocoons. At first, everyone just came to burn incense and make a lot of noise, but later it gradually developed into a temple fair. The temple fair time is divided into the first Qingming Festival, the second Qingming Festival, and the third Qingming Festival. From the beginning to the end, it takes more than ten days. Silkworm farmers from all over the country go to the silkworm temple to worship the silkworm god, pray for a good harvest of silkworms, and carry out a series of ancient folk customs activities at the temple fair. The Hanshan Silkworm Flower Temple Fair has rich content and diverse forms, reflecting the characteristics of religion, folk customs, production, and life in the Jiangnan Silkworm Village. The temple fair is a collective worship of the god. People from Shimen, Zhouquan, Heshan, Tongxiang, Chongfu, Nanxun, Huzhou and other areas around Hanshan went to Hanshan to worship by land and water, and some even carried the tablets of their own village and ceremonial guards to worship the mountain. The temple fair was even more lively: there were two forms of worship ceremonies on the mountain: one was the worship of incense, including "hanging arm incense" and "tying meat dragonflies", etc.; the other was to carry the Bodhisattva out for a tour. At the same time, various competitive water play activities were carried out on the water surface below the mountain, such as standard boats, boxing boats, stepping on white boats, dragon boats, etc. From the 1930s to before the founding of New China, with the rise of chemical fiber fabrics, the sericulture economy suffered a heavy blow, and the silkworm flower temple fair was almost extinct. After the founding of New China, the production team collectively raised silkworms and advocated scientific silkworm breeding. The consciousness of worshipping the silkworm god faded, and the grand ceremony of praying to the god was no longer there. However, the folk cultural and sports activities of "playing in spring" that were originally performed in the silkworm flower temple fair and loved by silkworm farmers are still prosperous. During the "Cultural Revolution", the silkworm flower temple fair was banned as "four olds". After the Cultural Revolution, local silkworm farmers in various villages spontaneously resumed the Qingming Festival silkworm flower rolling and silkworm god worship activities, which have continued to this day. Now, the Hanshan Silkworm Flower Rolling Fair has become a landmark folk custom in Tongxiang and other places, and it is in urgent need of protection. Hanshan Silkworm Flower Rolling (Tongxiang City, Huzhou Nanxun District) has been included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Information source: Jiaxing Library Information source: Jiaxing Library