The next day, villagers would go to the Pujing Temple to pray for harvest of silkworm.” This description is probably the prototype of Temple Fair. Temple Fair starts from Qing Ming and last about half a month. Two days before Qing Ming, there is a temple fair named “silkworm fair” in Hanshan mountain about 20 kilometers away in the southwest of Wuzhen. People would gather together and worship to the silkworm god. From then on, the Temple Fair really opened.
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