Yangqiao Temple Fair, the third representative project of municipal intangible cultural heritage in Changzhou, is a folk custom project.
Yangqiao Temple Fair is a kind of comprehensive folk activity, which integrates welcoming gods, entertaining people, burning incense and fair trade. It has been circulated in the old village of Huangyangqiao in Wujin and its surrounding areas for nearly a thousand years.
The famous yangqiao Old Street was founded in Song Dynasty, and flourished in Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of businessmen gathered here to build gardens. Up to now, there are still more than 500 Ming and Qing buildings and 65,438+0,000m stone dikes well preserved. At that time, there was a bustling footbridge in Nanyang Bridge, which was "the city of Yiyang, the thoroughfare of the north and the south", and the ships under the bridge were connected. Prosperous commerce, convenient transportation and abundant material conditions make yangqiao Temple Fair emerge as the times require. Its main form and content is a comprehensive folk activity focusing on "Grandpa Town God's Return to Uncle's House", which integrates religious culture, folk culture and commercial communication.
According to the procedure, yangqiao Temple Fair can be divided into the process of going out, receiving, walking and giving up.