Research on Shangqiu Huoshentai Temple Fair Culture
Ancient temple fairs were the main venues for offering sacrifices and praying for blessings,carrying local social history and culture memories.In different historical periods,local temple fairs not only assume the prominent functions of commodity exchange and public entertainment,but also bear the important function of re-gional cultural inheritance,such as the continuation of local operas,acrobatics,religious sacrifices,and cultural spe-cialties,so as to form a historical and cultural memories with outstanding local characteristics.Relying on the mate-rial relics of the ancestors,Shangqiu Huoshentai Temple Fair has lasted for many years and has formed a unique Huoshentai temple fair culture.Among the many temple fairs in eastern Henan,its function of ancestor worshiping is particularly prominent,and it is compatible with local cultural products of different periods in the subsequent changes,and is of great contemplation significance in the presentation of folk culture.
Shangqiu Huoshentai Temple Fairtraditional folkloreinheritance and protection of folk culture