Original title: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei tourists Pinggu Yaji Mountain climbs high to pray for blessings.
Beijing ** News (Reporter Zhu Songmei, Correspondent Guo Yingting) On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival prayer temple fair in Yaji Mountain in Pinggu was grandly opened. Citizens and tourists from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei come here to climb the mountain and pray for blessings, and they can also eat authentic Pinggu food.
It is a tradition to climb to the top to pray for blessings. The Yaji Mountain Temple Fair originated in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, has a history of nearly 500 years, and has now been included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage. During the temple fair every year, in addition to the citizens of Beijing, tourists from Sanhe, Hebei, Jizhou, Tianjin and other places will also gather here to climb to the top of Yaji Mountain.
The 365 steps are decorated with "Fu" in yellow characters on a red background, implying that every step of the step is blessed and full of blessings. "I belong to the dragon, just now the ticket office said that the dragon tourists are free of charge, and also gave us a few small sugar gourds, which is a good sign! Ms. Zhao, a tourist from Tianjin, smiled with the staff at the ticket office and said good to each other, and then took her son into the scenic area to climb the heights to pray for blessings. Wang Junyu, a citizen, came from Shunyi with his mother, he said, Yaji Mountain has a strong New Year's flavor and people are enthusiastic, "This year's layout here is also very attractive, there are red 'Fu' characters and red lanterns everywhere, which makes people happy when they look at it." ”
This year, when you visit the temple fair, you will find that your eyes are full of 'blessings'. Zhang Xiaochen, mayor of Liujiadian Town, said that the town has prepared a series of activities for tourists such as visiting the Fu Club, crossing the Fu Bridge, walking the Fu Road, climbing the Fu steps, and opening the Fu Gate, so that everyone can feel the characteristic Fu culture of Yaji Mountain. "There are also many activities that you can participate in, such as writing blessing characters, extending blessing seals, drinking blessing coffee, etc. ”
The Yaji Mountain temple fair has a strong New Year's flavor. The literary and artistic teams of ten miles and eight townships came to the Taiji Square at the foot of the mountain to perform flower parties, car parties, dragon dances, middle flags, drums, and Yangge for tourists, and there were performances every day during the Spring Festival holiday.
There are also food stalls that are indispensable at the temple fair, and Pinggu delicacies such as baked boxes, sticky rolls, fried gnocchi corners, roasted sweet potatoes, and leaky noodles are made into small portions**. Yaji Mountain has also launched limited delicacies, such as "Sugar Fulu" (sugar gourd), Yaji Fu "Chang" (powder sausage), Fu cake, Fu coffee, Yaji vegetarian food, etc. Featured good things from 18 township streets in the district, such as walnuts, canned yellow peaches, painted gourds, woodblock rubbing, etc., were also unveiled.
The temple fair will last from the first day of the first month to the eighth day of the first month, and the opening hours are from 8 am to 4 pm every day.
*:Beijing**.