Yinjiang Temple Fair in Yinjiang Town
On the third day of March in the seventh year of Tang Taihe, Wang Xianling's wife celebrated her 30th birthday. The gentry of Jinyicheng congratulated her on her birthday, which happened to be two years after its weir was built, and the weir dam was basically completed. County magistrate Wang has mixed feelings. Sadly, the ten brothers made heroic sacrifices to build a dam for public welfare. The good news is that the hard work of the people in the trade city in the past two years will bear fruit. Immediately announced the completion of its mountain weir to the whole county of the trade city, and held a completion ceremony to comfort the spirits of the ten brothers. In this way, another Yinjiangqiao temple fair-"March 3" was formed.
Wat Phnom's "March 3rd" and "October 10th" temple fairs are unique and have dual meanings.
Yinjiang bridge is located in Siming throat, more than 1000 years; It has always been the political, economic and cultural center of Yinxi area. Due to the formation of other temple fairs, villagers' vendors from various towns and villages in western Silverstream have been attracted to go to the fair, watch the plays and make profits. Businessmen who gradually extended to the countdown of Ningbo government flocked to Yinjiang market. At the beginning of the Republic of China, businessmen from Dinghai, Zhoushan and coastal counties in eastern Zhejiang often went to the Tashan Temple Fair in Yinjiang for profit, and Tashan Temple Fair has become the largest temple fair in Ningbo.
The market activities of Yinjiangqiao Temple Fair often begin before the temple fair. Whenever the first pillar of the temple fair is "red", vendors start to set up tents and start business, and the temple fair begins to perform in the afternoon. 10 10, this play in Wat Phnom is called "Being Played", which aims to make traders of Economic Orange save hotels and perform all night.
In addition to guild performances, businessmen and citizens from various towns flocked to Yinjiangqiao Temple Fair to sell, buy and do profitable businesses:
Mountain products bamboo and wood, seasonal fruits, colorful cakes, clothes of four seasons, beaded shoes, fresh seafood, eggs, clay pots, cups for utensils, agricultural appliances, household furniture, children's toys, etc.
Inheriting the inside and outside of the temple, the smell of smoke is fragrant, street vendors are scattered all over the place, the goods are exquisite, and the sound of mixed selling is endless. Even more artists went into battle with their bare hands, dancing knives, guns, flowers and fists, and seeing the villagers, cheering like thunder. Divination, fortune telling, classes, divination, juggling, horse racing, etc. And charlatans and dentists are really a collection of 360 lines. The grand occasion of the temple fair has lasted for more than 800 years since the Song Dynasty.
Since liberation, the population has soared; Villagers and people from all walks of life gathered in the Yinjiang River, and there should have been stalls on both sides of the Guanchi River. Later, it was unified into an adult stream, and there was no place to stand in several subjects. Some of them were squeezed into Guanchi River. Until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Yinjiangqiao Temple Fair, as a superstitious activity of the four old schools, disappeared for nearly ten years.
In the late period of the Cultural Revolution, the Yinjiangqiao Temple Fair was gradually restored on March 3rd and 10/0, but its name has evolved into "Yinjiang Town Material Exchange Meeting". Since the reform and opening up, the words "Yinjiangqiao traditional temple fair" have appeared.
Throughout the Yinshangqiao Tashan Temple Fair, from the feudal dynasty of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China; There is a certain economic foundation: aquatic products from Shaojiaping Beach to Guangxi River and Nantang River under jiepai are used for temple fairs. There are more than 200 mu of temple fields in Wat Phnom, of which Tashan Temple has more than 60 mu. The rental income is used for temple maintenance, sacrifices and temple fair performances. Others, such as Fu Tou, will have a field of 20 mu, Yaotang, 60 mu, Jiuru, 17 mu, and Hetai, 30 mu. The club has 24 pieces of equipment, and there is no venue because the equipment will not be spent after one-time purchase. At other times, it is dozens of acres, dozens of acres of land. Some will have cash to accumulate livestock, and some shortages will be solved by rural folk music and disciples in the community.