Temple Fair Of The PuXian DongYue Temple And "Four Jiao Pilgrimage"

The temple of PuXian dongyue is one of the famous Dongyue temples, and is also the standpoint of research for the development of the culture of Dongyue temples in Shanxi Province. As the core of PuXian dongyue temple, the "four Jiao pilgrimage" ceremony is of great value for the research.The research of Temple fair is based on the related ceremonies and folk custom items of the temple fair itself, and its attached value function cannot be ignored either. PuXian dongyue temple not only has the big ceremony of "Christmas celebration", and also has some other unique personal folk custom sacrifices such as "bear any sword","steal and send XiaoXie" and "send scabs". And the basic functions of the temple fair are to pray for wealth, health and descendants for ordinary people in daily ceremonies. Meanwhile the other three special functions in the open ceremony of the temple fair are still very important, that is, to strengthen the belief through communication, to enhance the community cohesion through massive exchange, and to restrain the through the spirit affection."Four Jiao pilgrimage" ceremony is the climax of the whole temple fair. The causes of its formation are both the worship for Dongyue God from the local people and the cooperation between the government and nongovernment from now and then, which has formed a compact organization and complete system. In the group of "Four Jiao pilgrimage", a triangle structure only makes the faith to the dongyue species, and enhances the local community cohesion.As a folk ritual,"four Jiao pilgrimage" has an extremely process from the preparation to the completion of the ceremony. The whole PuXian is involved in this activity entirely. The villagers abide by the sacrifice requirements and taboo. As the core of "Jiao god cruise", the formal Jiao and paying religious homage to Jiao formally show imperial majesty to the god in the closing with dragon patterns and the setting of the flag, and also in the ceremony of sacrifice. The Jiao people who attend the ceremony regard themselves as the attendants of Jiao god and also obtain the pleasure from their spirit. In the meantime, the ordinary people will sacrifice dishes to god to beg for bless.PuXian dongyue cultural tourism festival will be held by PuXian dongyue temple session, five great activities will be held to expand reputation of PuXian dongyue temple. It inevitably has to provide some performance on purpose to make dongyue temple well-known, and keep the culture and "four Jiao pilgrimage" ceremony inheritance alive.