Yin Yang Fair: Open Only One Day a Year

Three hundred years ago, plague was rampant in Leizhou Peninsula and countless souls died. Lin Yuantu, the ancestor of the Lin family, made a pact with the ghost king and opened a Yin-Yang Fair among the barren graves on Jingweipo. Every year on March 22 of the lunar calendar, the market opens at dawn and closes at sunset. Humans and ghosts share the market and trade fairly. Three hundred years later, Lin Du, a descendant of Lin Yuantu, received a copper key and a yellowed almanac at his grandfather's funeral. His grandfather left only one sentence: "Three hundred years of rules cannot be broken in our hands." Lin Du returned to the Jingwei slope with low grass and sparse trees and undulating graves. The moment the fog dissipated, he saw a market that should not exist in this world. The stalls were arranged from the foot of the slope to the top of the slope. The old man selling bamboo wares was flying with his knife. In front of the meat stall, someone wanted to buy "seven catties and seven taels". The woman in a red wedding dress held an oil-paper umbrella and waited for him for three hundred years. "Yin Yang Fair: Only Open One Day a Year" is a realistic-themed online article that combines urban anecdotes, folk customs and systematic management. Here are the real Leizhou folk customs, the bamboo market on the cemetery, the unsinkable trade between humans and ghosts, and the agreement that an ordinary young man will spend his whole life to abide by.