Everything goes as planned during the Chinese New Year at the Confucian Temple

Deyang Confucian Temple invites you to visit the temple fair and celebrate the New Year together

The Spring Festival is a day for getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, and for family reunion. Starting from the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Deyang Confucian Temple is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, creating a festive atmosphere. In order to let the masses feel the strong New Year atmosphere, traditional temple events full of New Year flavor take turns to appear. The Spring Festival blessing ceremony, Spring Festival temple fair, welcoming the Spring Festival with descendants of Confucius, Spring Festival parades and flash mobs, traditional games, and other colorful folk cultural activities welcome guests from all over the world to gather at Deyang Confucian Temple, continuing traditional culture and sharing the traditional Chinese New Year. "Everything goes as you wish in the Confucian Temple New Year" Deyang Confucian Temple New Year series activities will continue until the seventh day of the lunar new year, and Deyang Confucian Temple will also accompany you to have a Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) on the fifteenth day of the first month.

The golden snake dances wildly to celebrate the new year, and the "temple" is full of fun to welcome the new year. During the event, citizens can pray for the new year at the Dacheng Hall. Participants will guide the citizens to dress and wash their clothes, and perform a worship ceremony to Confucius, praying for the prosperity and flourishing of the motherland, the happiness and happiness of families, and expressing their beautiful expectations and visions for the new year through traditional prayer ceremonies.

In the Yisi New Year and Deyang Confucian Temple New Year series of activities, the descendants of Confucius celebrated the New Year together, which was particularly eye-catching. At the event, lively and festive dragon and lion dances were performed, with descendants of Confucius participating in the finishing touch. The auspicious beasts were dressed in exquisite beauty and looked majestic. The people on site joined in, praying together and expressing their best wishes for a better future life. Not only that, Deyang Confucian Temple also joined hands with multiple Confucian temples in Sichuan to participate in the grand ceremony of worshiping Confucius, fully demonstrating the profound connotation and unique charm of Confucian cultural etiquette.

The parade, dressed in Hanfu and armor, lined up on the walls of Wanren Palace and passed through the bustling crowd, passing through Lingxing Gate, Panqiao, Jimen, Dacheng Hall, Daoguan Ancient and Modern Square, Confucius Statue in Wenmiao Square, and Depei Tiandi Square for a week, attracting a large number of tourists to stop and take photos. In addition, a Confucian classic study class for young people invites descendants of Confucius as lecturers to share their family history and cultural stories, allowing good family traditions to nourish people's hearts and help young people tie the first button of their lives.

The ancient music concert, Chinese New Year prayer, and Chinese New Year temple fair, with various forms of activities, attracted cheers from the audience. Fun traditional cultural interactive games were also set up at the event site, including throwing pots, archery, rubbings, interpreting the Analects, flying flower orders, touching lucky characters, kicking shuttlecock, ring rings, chess games, guessing lantern riddles, and many other free activity areas… The rich traditional cultural activities showcased the beauty of the Confucian temple and made the New Year atmosphere stronger.

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and strengthening the emphasis on festivals with ethnic characteristics is a trend under new historical conditions. Deyang Confucian Temple has been actively promoting excellent traditional Chinese culture for many years. In addition to holding a series of activities during the Spring Festival every year, it also regularly holds traditional etiquette activities such as the Confucius Festival, coming of age ceremony, and opening ceremony. Zhang Jie, the director of Deyang Museum, said that through the interactive experience of traditional culture and the development of fun folk games, the habit of "worshiping Confucius on the first day of the lunar new year and visiting Confucian temples during the Spring Festival" has gradually been cultivated among citizens. At the same time, through rich and colorful folk cultural activities, a new trend of Spring Festival tourism is created, further highlighting the unique charm and profound historical heritage of the cultural relics and ancient buildings of Deyang Confucian Temple. While inheriting the historical context, a different "New Year's customs flavor" is also created.