Dongkeng Juyun Temple Fair

Guangdong
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In 2010, it was selected as a county-level intangible cultural heritage. The Juyun Temple Fair is a folk festival in Dongkeng and Hetian. The temple fair activities are folk activities in which ordinary people have always preserved traditional beliefs, lifestyles, habits and etiquette in a fragmentary or relatively stable form. The temple fair takes one year as a cycle. Every year on the fourth day of the first lunar month and the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, it is arranged in sequence in Dongkeng and Hetian to welcome the holy carriage, to "reward and bless" the ancestors of the king and the ancestors. Pray for no disasters throughout the four seasons, peace in the whole country, good weather, and peace in the country and the people. Wherever they go, believers prepare tea, food, five vegetarian dishes, five fruits, plate trays, lanterns, three animals and other gifts for worship, reading petitions, reciting sacrificial texts, playing music, big gongs and drums, bands, golden lions, operas, "moving the Eight Immortals, sending children with thousands of gold", as well as Dongkeng pancakes, believers receiving children and other traditional ceremonies. Since 1986, believers who attend the temple fairs every year make three requests in front of the statue of the King to select a chief executive and board members to preside over the temple fairs in each village each year.

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