The Jiangwang Temple Fair is a folk temple fair derived from the activities of worshipping Jiang Ziwen. It is a folk cultural activity formed by the local people in their long-term life in the form of singing and dancing, sacrificial activities and commodity exchange activities. It contains many cultural contents such as history, religion, folk customs, and commerce. The original Jiangwang Temple enshrined Jiang Ziwen, the county lieutenant of Moling (now Nanjing) in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Jiang Ziwen was a native of Guangling (now Yangzhou) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He served as the county lieutenant of Moling (now Nanjing) in the late Han Dynasty. He died in battle at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain while chasing thieves. After Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu established his capital in Moling, he named him the God of Zhongshan Mountain, changed "Zhongshan" to "Jiangshan", built the Jiangwang Temple, and worshipped him continuously for generations. Zeng Ji of the Song Dynasty wrote in the poem "Jiang Emperor Temple": "The white horse has been tied to the temple gate for a thousand years, and the smoke from the furnace is floating. The coffin is closed and the prosperity and decline are determined, and the blue bones should still be the supreme." It records the grand occasion of "smoke floating in the furnace" in the Jiangwang Temple in the Song Dynasty. Zhu Ke, a scholar in the Republic of China, said in "A Study of Jinling Historic Sites": "The temple of Jiang Ziwen first flourished in Wu, was revered in Jin, was greater than that of Southern Qi, and declined in Ming". Jiang Wang Temple was converted into a private school in the first year of the Republic of China (1912), and then into a primary school. The Jiang Wang Temple stage was converted into a school building after the founding of New China. In the 1960s, the temple was destroyed. It is unknown when the temple fair began. In 2005, due to many reasons such as road traffic and urban management, the Jiang Wang Temple fair activities were temporarily suspended. Jiang Ziwen belief is a kind of witchcraft belief that has been widely popular among the people in today's Nanjing and its surrounding areas since the Six Dynasties. According to the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Shangjiang County Chronicles, "There is a Yujian Temple in the Jiang Temple, which is dedicated to Emperor Jiang. The emperor is Jiang Ziwen of the Later Han Dynasty. He often claimed that he would become a god after his death. Emperor Wu built a temple in Zhongshan for him and named him Marquis Jiang. In the Six Dynasties, people prayed to him as if he were a god. In the Yongming period of the Qi Dynasty, he was given the title of emperor. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously named Emperor Zhuangwu, and there is a temple stele." Every year on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month, the surrounding people hold a large temple fair in Jiangwang Temple Street. The temple fair coincides with the slack season for farming, and many people who go to the temple fair often use this opportunity to buy farm tools and agricultural and sideline products. People from all over the country come to the market, and it is very lively, just like the New Year. The Jiangwang Temple Fair is one of the four major temple fairs in Nanjing's history. The worship of "Jiang Wang" and related folk customs rely on the Jiangwang Temple. The Jiangwang Temple and the temple fair have become a cultural space with multiple values. Although the temple no longer exists today, the temple fair has become a physical evidence of history and culture, and has important and irreplaceable cultural heritage value. The numerous folk art performances and religious customs in the temple fair have high artistic value and are important resources for folk culture and folk art. The belief in King Jiang has lasted for thousands of years since the Eastern Wu period. It is a product of history and an important material for studying the social status, folk life, folk beliefs, folk handicrafts and commercial development in Nanjing's history. It is also an important phenomenon and material for studying and witnessing the profound regional culture accumulated by Nanjing as the "former capital of the Six Dynasties". With the help of professional departments, the local government has investigated and recorded the old site of King Jiang Temple and related remains. The Xuanwu District Cultural Bureau has negotiated with relevant departments to strive for the revival of the King Jiang Temple Fair. It plans to submit a plan for the revival of the King Jiang Temple Fair to the planning, cultural relics, transportation and other departments, and invest funds to entrust scientific research institutions to investigate and study the site of the King Jiang Temple, the history of the temple fair and the cultural connotation. In 2007, the King Jiang Temple Fair was included in the first batch of Nanjing's intangible cultural heritage list by the Nanjing Municipal People's Government.