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Temple Fairs in Beijing

Jun. 17, 2025Beijing Wonder Tours

Beijing Temple Fair is a traditional Chinese folk activity. During the fair, people do things like worshipping gods, trading goods, and having fun with cultural activities.

Beijing's temple fair demonstrates traditions and customs. There are traditional performances including lion shows, talk shows, and kungfu Shows and booths selling local snacks, traditional arts, and crafts . For foreigners, the temple fair is a cultural experience. Here is a list of Beijing's temple fairs to keep you busy and entertained. Changdian Temple Fair The Changdian Temple Fair is Beijing's oldest and best-known temple fair . It has everything you'd expect of a temple fair: a mixture of the traditional and modern. There are plenty of goods to tempt you: vendors selling paintings, calligraphic works, antiques, children's toys, crafts, and local snacks . Performances including martial arts, acrobatics, Peking Opera, talk shows, and folk dancing always keep the crowds entertained throughout the day. The Changdian Temple fair is the best place to go to learn about northern folk customs represented by Beijing, and is one of the temple fair sites particularly enjoyed by foreigners. Ditan Park Temple Fair Ditan Park Fair is one of the busiest temple fairs in Beijing. It has an altar where sacrifices were formerly offered to the earth god. Activities and events during the fair will include a packed entertainment schedule with a variety of performances and hundreds of stalls and booths selling local snacks, handicrafts, antiques, and curios. Baiyunguan Temple Fair Baiyunguan Temple is well known as the oldest and best preserved Taoism Temple that possesses the largest variety of Taoism heritage throughout China. The temple has long been one of the destinations that Beijing locals visit during the Spring Festival to pray for blessings. The Temple Fair is a buzz of traditional folk performances and hundreds of snacks with typical local flavors. In addition, it has Taoist culture exhibitions that attract people who are interested in Taoism. Longtanhu Temple Fair Longtanhu Temple Fair is renowned in Beijing for its cultural and fitness activities. It highlights various folk performances and folk arts. It is also the best choice for sampling a variety of local snacks sold by vendors , such as Chaogan (stir-fried liver), Baodu, Lvdagun, and Yangzasui. You can find a street full of time-honored Beijing traditional snack shops and Tianjin specialties . Daguanyuan Temple Fair This temple fair is held at Grand View Park, a replica of the magnificent Daguanyuan garden of an imperial family described in the well-known Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions by Qi

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