The scene of the Shennong temple fair. Photo by Zhuzhou**Quan**Reporter Wen Lin.
Zhuzhou ** News (All ** Reporter Tan Xinwu) February 3 is the Chinese New Year's Eve in the south. The first Shennong Temple Fair in Zhuzhou City was grandly opened in Shennong City. Under the drizzle, the scene was full of umbrella flowers and crowds, and the citizens helped the old and the young to visit the temple fair, looking forward to good health and good luck in the new year.
At about six o'clock in the evening, with a thick and long bell, the dragon blessing ceremony held by Shennong Altar in Tianyuan District officially opened the curtain of this Shennong temple fair. This symbolizing auspicious and noble dragon paraded all the way, igniting the enthusiasm of the citizens who came to watch the ceremony, everyone followed the dragon lantern to the square in front of the statue of Emperor Yan, and witnessed Liu Youmei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Yi Ran, a national model worker, jointly ringing the gong and bell - the first Shennong temple fair officially "opened".
There are all kinds of eating, drinking, and Tesco items at the temple fair, as well as activities such as picking up porcelain, flea market, tumbler performances, etc., as well as New Year's flavor elements such as writing Spring Festival couplets, sending blessing characters, and watching lights. Wang Shu'e, a citizen who is over 70 years old, the drizzle has not stopped her enthusiasm to come to play, she said: "I have been in Hunan for more than 60 years, this is the first time I have participated in a large-scale temple fair, and the feeling of visiting the temple fair on the spot is particularly good, if it snows, the atmosphere will be better." ”
This year's temple fair, programs, activities are wonderful, in the north building of Shennong City, at the same time in the "factory BA" spring league, the parent-child sports games next to the field, for the activity added a lot of popularity. This year's temple fair starts on Chinese New Year's Eve on February 3 and will continue until the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Dragon.
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