Leishen Temple Fair Customs

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The Leishen Temple Fair is held on the first day of the eighth lunar month every year. It lasts for three days and has the Leishen Market in Huangping Village, Chengtang Town. The Leishen Temple Fair originated in the early Southern Song Dynasty and is related to Yue Fei's anti-Jin campaign in Yifeng. According to the "Chengtang Town Chronicles", Yue Fei led his troops to defeat the Jin soldiers in Chengtang Sili. A general named Lan was shot and killed by a stray arrow from the Jin soldiers because he supervised the battle here. At that time, Yue's army was chasing the enemy soldiers and could not bury them in time. The locals buried them with grass. The next summer, it was sunny for a long time without rain, and the seedlings dried up. One night a farmer shouted: "I am General Lan. I set up an altar to pray for rain, and there will be a good harvest." The villagers followed his words and it was true. After the harvest that year, the villagers built a temple at the burial site, called "Leishen Temple", and made statues to worship. Every year on the first day of August, villagers from far and near come to worship. The village was also renamed Leishen Village. In the old days, people from far and near would come to the Thunder God Temple to burn incense and worship during the festival. The village leaders would invite opera troupes to perform to fulfill their vows. The festival lasted three days and merchants gathered. The main trading products were oxen, bamboo farm tools, seeds and local specialties. On September 11, 1936, it was banned by the county magistrate Zheng Yichao and resumed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Now the sacrificial activities have been basically abolished, and only material trading activities remain, and the scale is getting smaller and smaller. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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