ps: Thank you for planting trees and making zero rewards, Pei Bin's monthly pass, and the moon cakes of the bosom dragon.

As soon as Chu Jiaqiang came free, he received a call from Miao Huo, and he came over with his wife and children. In the past two or three months, I haven't come because I've been busy, and I've been bored with the two little ancestors in the family these days, so I've taken them over for a walk.

"Brother Miao, it's been a few months!" Chu Jiaqiang said with a smile. Then pick up the two little ones and give them what they have to eat.

Miao Huo smiled bitterly: "These two little bastards have complained to their grandmother." Two days ago, he was lectured by his mother-in-law and ordered him to take the child out for a walk in two days.

"Haha! It's just the right time, we have a temple fair here, and if you miss these three days, you will have to wait three years to see it. Chu Jiaqiang asked Xiao Yezi and Xiao Yazi, two siblings, to play by themselves. It's not once or twice that they've been here, and there are a lot of kids here, so there's nothing to worry about.

Chu Jiaqiang was just about to talk a few more words, but the old village chief shouted in the distance again, let him pass! I had no choice but to apologize and say, "I'm sorry! Brother Miao, I can't greet you, let's walk around! ”

"It's okay, you get busy first, I'll just walk around with your sister-in-law." Miao Huo waved his hand, indicating that it didn't matter, and let Chu Jiaqiang get busy first. To be honest, he has relatively little contact with this kind of temple fair, and he is also a little curious and fresh.

After Chu Jiaqiang confessed and left, Miao Huo's wife Mo regretted going to talk to Chu Jiaqiang's wife Ye Caiping. And Miao Huo is Zhou Furong and other buddies, bragging.

Throughout the morning, Chu Jiaqiang worked as a coolie, or rather, the young and middle-aged people in the entire Chu Jiazhai were not idle. At noon, everyone didn't go home to eat, so they ate on the venue, and dozens of tables were set up for the banquet, which was much more terrifying than Chu Jiaqiang's marriage before. Plus there are two giant bears to serve. The cooks are even busier.

"It's okay, it's starting to take a little easier in the afternoon." Chu Jiaqiang said with a sigh of relief. The other lads also nodded, this morning, the field layout work was really exhausting for them.

In the afternoon, it was the women's turn to get busy. The main thing is that there is a special prayer activity in the afternoon, and even Mrs. Wu and the second aunt accompany Ye Caiping to participate.

They all hope that Ye Caiping's belly can compete for energy, add a man to the Chu family, and spread the branches and leaves of the Chu family, and the current Chu family is really a bit zero. Chu Jiaqiang is a lone seedling. This made Ye Caiping's pressure increase in vain, and she had never so strongly hoped that the little guy in her belly was a boy.

"It's not necessarily a women's event! Men can also participate, especially family members, who hope that the women in the family will have more children. Elder Hong said to the young people.

When one guy listened, he touched his head. He said: "I thought that only women could participate, and I didn't accompany my wife." Well! Let's not talk about it yet! I'll leave for a moment. ”

The young tourist immediately slipped away and searched the crowd for his wife. When I got inside, I found that there were really men participating, but there were relatively few of them, and it was mainly women piled together.

As soon as the temple fair opened, all directions came to worship. Worship the gods and incense, and pray to return home. This is an activity that revolves around the "temple" and the gods worshipped, and is the theme of traditional temple fairs. Among them, the practice of praying for children with witchcraft connotations is the most typical reflection of the core of Chinese tradition. This is determined by the nature of China's agrarian society. In thousands of years of feudal society, people's living environment has not changed, and the reproduction of future generations has become the top priority for thousands of years.

"This kind of activity is really everywhere! I've seen a lot of the same elsewhere. Xu Hao and his professor have also traveled a lot, and there is almost no shortage of this activity. Seemingly. The traditional idea of looking forward to a full house of children and grandchildren has long been deeply rooted in the soul of the entire nation.

"That's, the most representative of them. It is the ancestral temple fair in Huaiyang, the Mazu (Tianhou Temple) temple fair in Tianjin, the Shuanglin temple fair in Pingyao, the Miaofeng Mountain and Baiyun Temple in the capital, etc. Old Man Zhou said.

He also came to Chujiazhai in the past two days, and was invited by a friend to go to Yunnan, but found that Chujiazhai was going to hold a temple fair these days, and he didn't want to miss it, so he stayed.

"The ancestral temple in the north of Huaiyang City is the place where the skulls of Taihao and Fuxi are buried in the legend, so it is also called Taihao Mausoleum. I don't know if it's true. A young man spoke.

Hearing this, many people laughed. Zhou Furong smiled: "Hehe! Brother, Taihao and Fu Xi are mythical characters, do you still think it's true? ”

When the young man heard this, he was immediately ashamed and forgot about it.

"Huaiyang's ancestral temple fair for Nuwa and Taihao Fuxi can be said to be the most primitive religious and witchcraft temple fair." Teacher Gu also spoke. He only came here two days ago, and at the same time, his wife and grandson brought him, leaving his son and daughter-in-law at the school.

As we all know, since ancient times, China has spread the mythical story of Nuwa and Fuxi who made people out of soil and created human beings. Therefore, a month-long temple fair is held from February 2 to March 2 of the lunar calendar every year, and its main activity is to worship ancestors and "tie dolls". Married women who have no children have to dig out the "descendant kiln" that symbolizes the door of fertility during the temple fair, and buy back some local mud toys "mud dogs" in order to have children as soon as possible.

At temple fairs in some other places, there are also various disguised begging and "tethered doll" activities. During the temple fair, people who come to the temple to observe and worship the gods and Buddhas, in addition to asking for children, there are also people who pray for blessings and wealth, seek medical treatment, ask for good fortune, and even seek relief from mental suffering.

In the thousands of years of history of China's feudal society, temple fairs, as the most extensive folk assembly activities, very typically reflect the life concepts and psychology of the common people. People's hope for the future and the catharsis of joy are all unabashedly revealed in the temple fair.

Of course, Chu Jiaqiang could not be absent from the prayer activity, and his grandmother, Mrs. Wu, ordered him to follow this time very shamelessly. Those who participate in the event first offer incense, then kneel down and pray silently, asking God to know their hearts.

In the temple fair of Chujiazhai, there are no mud dolls or the like, and those who participate in the event will have temple fair personnel send a jade Guanyin or jade Buddha that has opened the light.

Chu Xianke personally sent jade carvings to Chu Jiaqiang and Ye Caiping: "With the blessing of the gods this time, it will definitely go smoothly." ”

At this time, some tourists noticed that the entire venue did not set up any donation measures. Come, today is the best time for the temple fair to collect money, but Chujiazhai here has no such meaning at all.

They don't know that a temple fair like Chujiazhai is not a commercial way to make money. The expenses related to the temple fair have been collected early, and there is no need to stench copper on such a sacred event.