The Elephant Temple Fair is held at Longhu Financial Island in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, from the first to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. This is not a traditional temple fair, but is organized by Henan Cultural Tourism. There are many types of stalls throughout the temple fair, including more than 100 food stalls, which bring together specialties from eighteen cities including Luoyang, Kaifeng, Nanyang, Shangqiu, etc. Visitors can eat all over Henan on one island. In terms of intangible cultural heritage inheritance, the temple fair specially set up an intangible cultural heritage exhibition area and invited many intangible cultural heritage inheritors to demonstrate their skills on site. These traditional crafts, such as sugar painting, paper-cutting, clay figurines, etc., will be understood and appreciated by more people through the platform of temple fairs.
The delicacies that appear in the video include: candied haws, sugar paintings, roasted gluten, cold skin, fried dumplings, roasted pears in earthenware pots, stinky tofu, stir-fried jelly, barbecue skewers, bucket chicken, grilled sausages, skewers, compressed steamed buns, Gaozhuang steamed buns dipped in watermelon Sauce, local steamed buns, hot tofu, sugar candies, sesame candy, crispy grasshoppers, etc.