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Guidebook to 2007 Beijing temple fairs

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-02-17 09:35





The spring holiday can be more than banquets with families and friends,
lazing around on sofas watching TV soaps and surfing the Internet. There
are plenty of activities that happen during the spring festival, such as
temple fairs.

As an important form of folk economic and cultural activity, temple fairs
are where people trade, entertain and worship. As the name suggests, the
origin of temple fairs is closely related to temple activities. They used
to be held only during temple festivals or special temple fair days and
were complemented with some business activities. As time went by, the
religious color of temple fair faded and temple fairs became more and
more like flea markets for common folks.

In 2007 in Beijing, temple fairs will have many different themes,
including the Olympics at Longtan Temple, traditional Chinese costume
parades at Daguanyuan, a garden modeled after the garden in the classic
Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions, and a spring festival folk culture
exhibition at Yuyuantan Temple.

Longtan Temple Fair

This year's Longtan Temple Fair is taking the Olympics as its theme.
Famous Chinese Weichi chess players Wang Runan, Hua Yigang and Xiejun
will lead a team of brilliant Chinese chess players who will meet fans
and play chess with them. Excellent judo and tae kwon do practitioners,,
boxers and Olympic weightlifting gold medal winners Liu Chunhong, Shi
Zhiyong and Wangxu will also have exchanges with sports fans.

Time: February 18- February 24
Location: Longtan Park, No.8, Longtanlu, Chongwen District
Tel: 010-67144336
Ticket��RMB6

Daguanyuan

Visitors attending the Daguanyuan Temple Fair will be able to see the
annual Yuanfei Xingqin parade, in which people will wear traditional
Chinese festival costumes. A traditional wedding ceremony (Baoyu
chenghun) and a traditional birthday ceremony (jiamu heshou) will also be
performed.

Some Chinese directors are planning to shoot the Chinese classic A Dream
of Red Mansions as a soap opera and they have conducted a nationwide
casting call. . Some of the candidates will also be present at this
temple fair.

Time: February 18- February 23
Location: Daguanyuan (grand view garden), No.12 Nancaiyuanjie, Xuanwu
District
Tel: 010-63544993/63544994
Ticket: RMB 15

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