最早的“庙会”一词,其意是指“在宗庙中聚会”,如《后汉书·张纯传》所言:“元始五年,诸王公列侯庙会,始为禘祭”。后来,又把在寺庙内或其附近定期举行的集市,叫做“庙会”。如清人张培仁在《妙香室丛话·财运》中写到:“京师隆福寺,每月九日,百货云集,谓之庙会。”庙会,又称“庙市”。如《二刻拍案惊奇》卷三所说:“京师有个风俗,每遇初一、十五、二十五日,谓之庙市,凡百般货物俱赶在城隍庙前,直摆到刑部街上来卖。”庙会的“会”,其义着眼于大众聚会,人众繁多;庙市的“市”,其义着眼于这种场所主要是个市场,买卖交易繁众。庙会的这种“会”和“市”的特点都有。我家乡三里外有个沙庄,每年三月三日有庙会,小时候听大人讲,沙庄有个老奶奶庙,这位老奶奶是泰山老奶奶的姊妹。这个庙会解放后还盛行了几年, The earliest “Temple Fair,” the word means “meeting in the temple”, such as “Han Zhang Chun Chuan” said: “Yuan first five years, the kings and Hou Hou Temple Fair, began to offer sacrifices.” Later, again in the temple or in the vicinity of regularly held market, called “Temple Fair.” Such as the Qing Ren Zhang Peiren in the “wonderful incense chamber Cong Lun”, wrote: “Beijing Imperial Long Fook Temple, on the 9th of each month, gathered in department stores, that the temple.” Temple Fair, also known as “Temple City.” Such as “two carved case surprise” Volume III said: “The capital has a custom, every encounter on the first, fifteen, twenty-five, that the Temple City, where all sorts of goods all rush in front of Temple, straight to the Ministry of Criminal Street Up and sell. ”Temple Fair“, its meaning is focused on mass gatherings, people are numerous; Temple City ”City“, its meaning is that this place is mainly a market, buying and selling the public. Temple Fair this ”will“ and ”city" features have. There is a sand village outside my hometown three miles away. There is a temple fair on March 3 every year. When I was young, I listened to adults and there was an old grandmother temple in Shazhuang. The grandmother was the sister of Mount Tai’s grandmother. After the liberation this temple also prevailed a few years,