"Open the temple! "Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, and the annual "Wuhou Temple Chengdu Temple Fair" is coming as scheduled. On the evening of February 8, there was a lively scene outside the west gate of the Wuhou Temple Museum in Chengdu. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang, played by Sichuan opera actors, appeared in gorgeous costumes in turn, and representatives of Chengdu citizens from all walks of life held gongs and hammers in their hands and sounded the gong, and the 2024 Wuhou Temple Chengdu Temple Fair officially opened.
Since 2005, Chengdu Wuhou Temple Museum has held the "Wuhou Temple Chengdu Temple Fair" every Lunar New Year, which has been successfully held for 17 sessions so far, and is the largest, largest number of participants and the most popular traditional folk cultural activities during the Spring Festival in Chengdu. This year's Wuhou Temple Fair lasted from February 8 (the 29th day of the lunar month) to February 25 (the 16th day of the first lunar month), with the theme of "Three Kingdoms Metaverse Tide Play Chengdu Year", 15 groups of theme lights and 14 groups of atmosphere lights such as "Empty City Strategy", "Wolong Take-off", "Shu Han Shengjing" and "The Beauty of the Fan" jointly created a multi-dimensional scene of lanterns, light shadows, light shows, and overlapping lights.
Walking into the big temple fair, the first thing that catches your eye is the dreamy and mysterious "empty city plan" lamp group. Mr. Wolong, dressed in a crane, sat on the high platform, calmly stroked the piano, and the feather fan turned into wings behind him, and the cool lamp group attracted the audience to check in enthusiastically. The "Wolong Take-off" lantern group on the lake is the highlight of this lantern exhibition. The lamp is 50 meters long, 50 meters wide and 18 meters high, covering almost the entire surface of the lake, and the atmosphere is shocking. Zhuge Liang of the lupine scarf, majestic and heroic, stands between the mountains and rivers. "The lantern group is very exquisite, and it shows me Zhuge Liang's strategizing spirit as a hero. Cai Guanyuan, a tourist from Guangdong, said.
It is worth mentioning that this theme lantern exhibition is also a dream lantern exhibition with a cyber atmosphere. The audience can scan through their mobile phones*** Under the leadership of the Three Kingdoms digital human guide NPC, the audience can travel through time and space, watch the lights in the palm of their hands, take photos and check in in the AR fantasy world where virtual reality is born, and immerse themselves in the Three Kingdoms metaverse that spans the "past, present, and future".
In addition to the lantern exhibition, this year's Zhuge Creative Market of the Great Temple Fair also opened the "people from the crowd" mode. The creative market integrates and upgrades the traditional snack area and craft area of the temple fair, and the intangible cultural heritage skills and products such as dough clay figurines, engravings, paper-cutting, incense workshops, and sugar paintings are collectively unveiled, allowing the audience to experience the blend of tradition and trend. In addition, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, there are also theatrical performances that integrate ancient style and popular fashion on the main stage of the temple fair, allowing the audience to celebrate the New Year in a variety of cultural and artistic programs.
Tips. From February 8, 2024 to February 25, 2024, during the Great Temple Fair, the ticketing system of Chengdu Wuhou Temple Museum will implement reservation, current limitation, and off-peak ticketing measures, and pre-sale 7 days in advance.