Visiting the temple fair is an important tradition of the city's Spring Festival. At this time, many shops were closed, and the temple fair became an important place for people visiting relatives and friends to have a good time. The original temple fairs originated from the ancestral temple sacrifice system in ancient times. In order to seek the blessing of their ancestors or gods, people choose to talk to them in palaces or houses by offering them ranks, etc. At the time of the sacrifice, in addition to a certain standard of ceremony, in order to render the atmosphere, there will be some wonderful singing and dancing performances, that is, social opera. The prototype of the temple fair was born. Since the introduction of Buddhism into China in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it has been compatible with Taoism in China, and has gone through thousands of years of evolution and many regime changes, and the religious characteristics have become more and more degraded, and finally formed this kind of commercial folk activities integrating tourism, leisure and entertainment, shopping and catering. No matter how busy Chen Ying is, she doesn't want to miss this important custom, not to mention that Liang Jing made an appointment with her a few days ago to go to the Dream of Red Mansions-themed temple fair together on the third day of the Lunar New Year. They scrambled all the way to the bus, and finally struggled to get out of it, and saw a long serpentine line at the park ticket office that hosted the temple fair across the street.

"It's still too late." Liang Jing sighed and pulled Chen Ying's arm across the road, looking for the tail of the long queue to buy tickets.

"Don't be sad, I'm sure I'll be able to get in soon."

Chen Ying was right, although there were many people in line, the speed of progress was quite fast, and about half an hour later, the two girls had already walked into the main entrance of the park with a plaque of "Grand View Garden", and blended into the crowd like a market. As they walked along the flat and spacious road, they looked left and right at the clay figurines, kites, puzzles and couplets on the three-foot-long stalls on both sides of the road. Before arriving at the Qinfang Pavilion, there is a vacant lot, where a small flower bed is placed, and the zodiac animals of the year are clustered in the middle. Many people gathered around the flower beds to take pictures.

"Let's take a group photo." After Liang Jing finished speaking, she turned to a girl wearing a big red down jacket next to her and asked, "I'm sorry, can you take a picture for us?" Thank you. ”

"Okay." The girl took Liang Jing's mobile phone and stood a little farther away, and a tall boy stood next to her carrying a bag for her. She looked at the screen and said, "It's going to take a picture — one, two, three — okay." One more - okay. Can you take a look? ”

The two people in the photo are just smiling. Chen Ying nodded and thanked the girl.

"You're welcome." The girl took the boy's hand and walked away. Liang Jing and Chen Ying watched them go away in unison.

"It's good to have a boyfriend to accompany me to the temple fair." Liang Jing said, her tone full of envy.

"What did Ye Feng do?" Chen Ying asked.

"I went to his grandmother's house for the Chinese New Year. Since Chinese New Year's Eve, the family has been busy for several days. On the second day of junior high school, he accompanied his mother to his grandmother's house - back to his parents' house. Their family is exquisite, and in addition to getting up early every day a few days ago, they said that today is a day to catch up on sleep according to customs, and they will never get up if they don't sleep until noon. I also said that it is taboo to go out to greet the New Year and banquet guests today, I don't understand these old customs, and I don't want to force him, so I have to come out by myself. ”

"The regularity of life is also a bit hopeful." Chen Ying took a closer look at a clay figure encased in a glass cover. It was a slender clay figure the length of a lady's finger, dressed in a blue dress with delicate lace on the cuffs and skirt. She held a very small volume of books, and the cover of this book was printed with the title of the book written in small letters: "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring". Chen Ying held the black wooden bottom bracket, looked at it again and again, and couldn't put it down.

"Boss, how much is this?" Chen Ying asked.

"That—fifty bucks." The boss said in passing.

"Okay." Chen Ying hurriedly took out a banknote from his coat pocket and handed it to him.

"No bargaining?" Liang Jing reminded her in a low voice, "Where did you lose your usual thrifty housekeeping style?" ”

"This is really good." Chen Ying smiled and reached out to take the box containing the clay figurines, "And it fits the theme of this temple fair-Dream of Red Mansions." ”

"Why didn't you choose Daiyu with the image of a funeral flower?" Liang Jing asked, pointing to the rows of clay figurines on the staircase-like shelves next to him.

"People in Suri commented on "Dream of Red Mansions", remembering Daiyu's funeral flowers and Baochai's fluttering butterflies, but they didn't remember that she was full of books and became obsessed. Although Jiafu Sichun also has its own strengths in 'qin, chess, calligraphy and painting', I appreciate Sister Lin's desire to read poetry, love poetry, and cherish pen and ink words. ”

"I prefer Tanchun – she's a little stronger than Daiyu and she's sophistication and sophistication. In my opinion, the books she reads are not limited to those lyrical and eternal poetry and songs, but also add a lot of academic knowledge about governing the country and helping the world. ”

"This is the charm of "Dream of Red Mansions" - all the fangs have their own strengths and weaknesses, so it is inevitable that they will have their own preferences according to their own preferences." Chen Ying picked up a clay figure dressed in a big red robe and a golden phoenix crown on his head, looked at it carefully and handed it to Liang Jing, "How about this?" ”

"I prefer Tanchun to wear a silver-blue homely daughter's dress." Liang Jing began to rummage through the purse hidden in her coat pocket, "I still think that it is more comfortable and comfortable for her to live in the Grand View Garden as her daughter." ”

Chen Ying gave the boss a few more pieces of money.

"No, no." Liang Jing said hurriedly.

"Count me as a New Year's gift to you." Chen Ying pulled her away from the stall without waiting for her to unlock the zipper on her purse.