Zeguo March Three Temple Fair, also known as the Welcome Meeting, has a long history. It is said that during the last Chongzhen period, an uncle and nephew went to Beijing to pass through the Zeguo Huitong Temple, and accidentally found that the well water was poisonous, and tried to persuade the villagers not to believe, the uncle jumped into the well to block, was pulled up and was blackened and poisoned to death, and the nephew fainted next to him when he saw this, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. In order to commemorate Zhou and Zhang, the local people changed the “Huitong Temple” to “Xiongzhen Temple”, and sculpted the black-faced uncle and red-faced nephew as the two gods of Zhou and Zhang. Later, he was made the second marshal of Zhou and Zhang. Since then, every year on the third day of March in the lunar calendar, Zeguo Town has held a grand “Welcome to the Holy Temple Fair”.
According to historical records, on that day, “juggling, emperor flower drums, lotus flowers, dancing flower sticks, stepping on the ground, walking high beams, thousands of autumn shoulders, standing hanging stems, sitting on the platform pavilion, etc., were extraordinary, and the welcoming procession lasted for several miles, the largest in all places.” “For historical reasons, it has been nearly half a century since the last temple fair in 1957. In 2008, the local people in Zeguo spontaneously organized and resumed the March Three Temple Fair, and returned to normal.
On April 18 this year (the third day of the third lunar month), the parade involved eight bao, including Sanyaqiao Village, Xiazhangqiao Village, Buxiang Village, Houlu Village, Qianlu Village, Changjing Village, Yamashita Chen Village and Zenancun. At 7:30 a.m., start from the Danya Temple to greet the gods, open the way for the vehicle to open the way, and tour all the way. The scene is very lively, and the parade team not only includes raising the pavilion, hanging terrier, dragon dance, lion dance, emperor flower drum, thousand autumn carrying, lake boats, face changing, but also other folk arts and mass sports.
Zeguo “March 3” is a traditional project of intangible cultural heritage in Zhejiang Province, and the activity inheritance base is also a designated inheritance base of Zhejiang Province, and the March Three Temple Festival not only becomes a platform for local folk art display, but also has a certain role and significance for the improvement of the living environment of intangible cultural heritage.
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