Guangsheng Temple is an ancient temple built in the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, played in the imperial court and carried out reconstruction and expansion. Vast and famous for a while? , renamed Guangsheng Temple. After the completion of the temple, nearby people, scholars and officials from neighboring counties came to Guangsheng Temple one after another to worship Buddha and offer sacrifices for sightseeing. With the increase of tourists, small traders began to do business, forming the embryonic form of Guangsheng Temple Temple Fair.
The reason why the temple fair of Guangsheng Temple is scheduled for March 18 is that Huo Quanshui is responsible for the irrigation of nearby fertile fields, so it is normal for ancient people to sacrifice to the water god of the temple. March 18th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the legendary water god. There is a folk saying:? March 18, Mai Huai doll? . At this time, the management of wheat field is basically over, and the wheat harvest season is coming, so farmers need to buy agricultural machinery and daily necessities. It is for these reasons that a regular temple fair was formed on March 18th of the lunar calendar. In the Yuan Dynasty, the scale of temple fairs was considerable. Notes on Rebuilding the Temple Monument in Wang Ying in the Six Years of Yuan You: Temple Fair on March 18? In towns and villages, you can't win with your hooves, your feet, your wife and those who bring young and old. A few days. ? Then, Gu Zhan fell in love and forgot to return. ? This passage records the grand occasion of people visiting the scenery at that time In the 13th year of Zhiyuan, Rebuilding the Monument of Wang Mingying Palace contains: In Ji Chun, on the eighth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival every year (March), many people come to enjoy incense sticks and drums. ? Naturally, the people who come to Guangsheng Temple to worship the water god are ordinary people, and also the villagers who benefit from the living spring nearby.
On March 18th of the lunar calendar, the ancient temple fair of Guangsheng Temple has been enduring and thriving, from offering sacrifices to water gods to visiting, from visiting to material exchange and market trade.
Today's ancient temple fairs are not only sightseeing gatherings, but also material exchanges, urban and rural fairs and even cultural activities for the broad masses of the people. These contents make Guangsheng Temple more and more famous, and make Guangsheng Temple more and more influential, and become a gathering activity with program color among the people in this area.