The Renaissance And Inheritance Of Traditional Of The Temple Fair

The South of China has been valuing the god of fire. In the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 100 temples of the god of fire distributed in every corners of Hunan State, verified in the Annals of Hunan State. As the historic evolution and social development, these temples of the god of fire had no longer existed except the only one in Changsha, which is known as the Fire Palace.Instead of the blessings of the god of fire, the Fire Palace has been inherited and developed so far, which benefited from the mutual-dependence and mutual-tolerance of the culture of the fair of the god of fire, including such cultures as the belief of the religion, food, fire.It is such a characteristic pattern where there are both drama and food in the temple that live in the palace that makes the Fire Palace become the unique one in China. In 2006, the fair of the god of fire of the Fire Palace in Changsha was included in the Catalogue of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hunan as the first batch. And then it was also included in The Catalogue of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008. Some new changes and development in the content and form can be found in the fair of the god of the Fire Palace by the introduction of the concept of the intangible cultural heritage. Combined with new modern elements, the fair of the god of fire of the Fire Palace become more energetic and vigorous. This paper is to describe the source and the development of the fair of the god of fire from the perspective of the protection of the intangible cultural heritage. Meanwhile, it explores the cultural characteristics and value which presented in the fair of the god of fire. It also explores and studies the cultural characteristics and value of the fair of the god of fire, which characterized by many kinds of cultures. But it is a fact that the fair of the god of the fire is endangered now. Then it analyzes the cause, the presentation and the change of the renaissance of the fair of the god of the fire. And it will discuss the influence and significance to the cultural inheritance of the Fire Palace by some measures taken by the government, the non-government organizations, the scholars and the media, etc. It aims at waking up the public national cultural consciousness to protect our cultural heritage spontaneously. What’s more, it put forward that we should think about the relationship between the cultural inheritance and protection of traditional fair and regional economic development. Although the renaissance and inheritance of the fair of the god of fire in modern times has great relationship with the development of commodity economy, it’s not wise to develop the economy at the price of abandoning our traditional culture. In a word, it is an important subject that we should explore to balance the economic development and the traditional culture protection and inheritance in modern times.