Many individuals go to Beijing’s conventional sanctuary fairs throughout the Spring Celebration (Chinese New Year) for custom asking, diversion, tidbits, and purchasing makes. They are an extraordinary chance to encounter nearby culture and customs.

The following is a rundown of the 10 best sanctuary fairs in Beijing. (Dates and times are inexact in view of earlier years. Get in touch with us for affirmation.)

• Celebrated: February
• Location: Beijing

1. Changdian Temple Fair

Found only south of Tian’anmen Square, Changdian Sanctuary Fair is one of the prominent fairs in the city. It has the fundamental blend of food, sellers, and exhibitions to give you the legitimate fair insight.

There you’ll find a wide range of stands selling workmanship, calligraphy, tea, and different products, while food merchants push trucks through the groups selling various nearby top choices.

• Go for: buying art, tea, ornaments, food
• Admission: 10 yuan
• Address: Liulichang Street, Xuanwu District 宣武区琉璃厂街
• Getting there: Take subway line 2 to Hepingmen Station.

For guests who need to have a legitimate northern Chinese celebration experience, the Changdian Sanctuary Fair is a lively, vivacious festival that invites Chinese and outsiders the same.

The region around Changdian used to house three unique Buddhist sanctuaries, so this fair was one of the biggest sanctuary fairs in Beijing. Despite the fact that the sanctuaries are not in the space any longer, the huge celebration has remained, and is one of the most dearest sanctuary fairs in Beijing.

Events and Food

The fair has many stages loaded up with various customary and current performers. A Chinese lion dance happens in the roads during the celebration. Likewise there are many corners selling food, handiworks and collectibles. The fair region is contained in one region. This is an extraordinary spot to attempt an incredible assortment of snacks from various districts of China, with an extensive variety of food stalls.

2. Ditan (‘Earth Altar’) Temple Fair

Ditan Sanctuary Fair is quite possibly of the most famous and well established fair in Beijing. Around 1,000,000 individuals visit it every year throughout the Spring Celebration.

There are reenactments of love services of the Qing Administration (1636-1911) to the lord of earth. Other than the services, there are a large number of people exhibitions and exercises, for example, manikin shows, customary workmanship displays, winged serpent and lion moves, and gymnastic shows…

Reenactment of the Qing-Style Sacred Ceremony

The terrified function is an interesting exhibition at the fair. It means to imitate the procedures completed in the Qing Line to petition God for harmony and flourishing of the country.

At 10 a.m. day to day, the crowd can take part in exhibitions on the first to fifth days of this current year of the Monkey (February 8-12). Two guests will be haphazardly picked consistently to take up the job of the head managing authorities playing out the consecrated ceremonies.

Local Snacks

It is expressed that of all the sanctuary fairs in Beijing, the sanctuary fair at the Sanctuary of Earth has the best tidbits. Consistently various merchants will sell in excess of 100 kinds of Chinese bites, particularly Beijing neighborhood snacks. A portion of China’s most-respected brands can be tracked down there.

Folk Culture Presentations

There will be groups of both local and regional artists at the fair, putting on carefully rehearsed performances.

Traditional Handcrafts

Customary wood carvings, incense sachets, silk weaving works, and other handcraft articles can be found in the Chinese handcrafts area. There will be live handcraft during the fair. The crowd can notice the fastidious technique of making an exquisite workmanship piece.

• Address: Ditan (Temple of the Earth) Park, East Avenue, Anding Gate, Dongcheng District

3. Dongyue Temple Fair

Dongyue Temple Fair had started as early as the Yuan Dynasty (1206 – 1368). The culture of “Fu” has been the essence of this fair. Many activities are centered on the “Fu” culture. Visitors can pray for good fortune at the altar, walk on the “Fu” road, or hang a “Fu” card to invite “Fu” for the coming year. Colorful folk performances, artwork displays, and snacks are also available.

• Go for: The exhibition of “Fu (福 Good Fortune)” culture

Temple fairs are popular activities in many parts of China during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration (Spring Festival). Happiness is celebrated at the Dongyue Temple Fair, one of the oldest temple fairs in Beijing.

Temple Fair Activities

The dates of the sanctuary fair vary with the Chinese lunar schedule, falling in late January or February. The fair generally begins with a gift function, since the fair’s subject is tied in with looking for favors. Participants appeal to God for favorable luck for the approaching year.

The sanctuary and grounds around it are brightened with the person 福 (fu), and that signifies ‘favoring’ in Mandarin. Individuals can purchase fu cards to bring favoring back home with them. Since the sanctuary is currently a people customs gallery, a broad exhibit of exercises focused on this topic occur.

Temple History

Dongyue Sanctuary Fair traces all the way back to the Yuan Line (1271-1368). Development of Dongyue Sanctuary began in 1319 and was finished four years after the fact. It was extended during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) lines.

The sanctuary covers 60,000 square meters with in excess of 600 rooms and lobbies. The sanctuary was partnered with Taoism during its days as a strict focus. Its name Dongyue is utilized for the lord of Mount Tai.

Getting There

Switched over completely to a people customs gallery in 1995, Dongyue Sanctuary is situated at 141 Chaoyangmenwai Road, Chaoyang Locale, a short stroll from the Chaoyangmen metro stop on Line 2.

4. Five Wealth Gods Temple Fair

At Wuxiancaishen Temple Fair, five brothers are deified as gods of wealth for their success hunting and prosperity.

• Go here for: Ancestor worship activities and local Beijing snacks.

At Wuxiancaishen Sanctuary (五显财神庙, ‘Five Conspicuous Abundance Divine beings Sanctuary’) there are five lords of abundance cherished and loved. It is a significant action for the vast majority old locals of Beijing to come to the sanctuary to ask consistently from the second day to the 6th day of the primary lunar month.

Activities

Right off the bat the morning of the second day of the principal lunar month, individuals typically go to the Lord of Abundance Sanctuary. They copy incense to petition God for favorable luck in the following year.

In the wake of consuming incense, individuals for the most part get some brilliant paper-cuts with the Chinese person “福” (fu), meaning favorable luck, or “喜” (xi), meaning joy, on them.

History

As indicated by verifiable records, the five divine forces of abundance were five siblings with the family name Chai. The five siblings were trackers, and they generally offered the extra meat of the wild creatures they chased to needy individuals, and they typically assembled spices to fix wounds and treat ailments for individuals. They were so respected by individuals that they were named immortals after they died, and were known as ‘the five noticeable divine forces of abundance’.

Travel Information

• Address: Southwest of Liuli Bridge, outside Guang’anmen, Xicheng District(北京西城区广安门外六里桥西南)
• Transportation: Take bus 6, 38, 42, 46, 57, 109, 122, 201, 687, 340, 410, 477, 613, 620, 650, 691, or 715 to Guang’anmen (广安门), and then walk about 500 meters.

5. Baiyun Temple Fair

Baiyun Sanctuary Fair has a persevering through fame with local people who come here to toss coins at a stone monkey and a chime to conjure a gift.

• Go here for: folk customs, local snacks, folk handicrafts, and a painting exhibition

Guests can go to numerous people exercises, partake in the nearby tidbits, buy society painstaking work and value shows of artistic creations. It draws in huge number of guests from all edges of the world each time.

At first filling in as a significant fair for the Taoists, Baiyun Sanctuary Fair is currently celebrated by local people, whose features incorporate the accompanying exercises:

Meeting the Immortal

The legend went that the exceptionally educated Taoist Qiu Chuji (an unbelievable figure in Taoism) would plunge to earth and let individuals with a partiality out of experiencing on the nineteenth of the principal lunar month every year. Thus, explorers from all edges of the world strive with each other to visit the sanctuary to petition God for good karma and fortune, and they assemble it Conference the Undying.

Throwing Coins through a Hole

There’s a wood coin of one foot in measurement hanging at the entry of Han Cavern inside the Mountain Door, which is painted brilliant with a bronze ring in the middle. The guests are urged to toss coins at the ring, and the people who hit being fortunate in the approaching year are thought of.

Touching the Stone Monkey

Strolling through the curved mountain door, guests will see a stone monkey before their eyes. It’s said that the people who contact it will stay away from sickness and underhanded spirits in the approaching year.

Praying for Babies

Yuanjun Lobby is an optimal spot for barren ladies to petition God for children from the Woman Sovereign Mother, and the people who ask truly will have a child in the approaching year, as per the conventional conviction of Taoism.

Other Activities

Notwithstanding the exercises over, it’s really smart to have a go at riding a jackass or sitting in a wedding vehicle seat to go around the fair. In addition to the fact that guests taste can neighborhood bites, for example, steamed dumplings, seared bean curd and millet glues during the fair, however they can likewise see the value in the customary Peking drama, lion moving, winged serpent moving, brace strolling and kung fu show, and north of 1,000 puzzles which are ready to be sorted out by guests.

For the people who are keen on the customary Chinese calligraphy, it is enthusiastically prescribed to buy composing brushes, ink sticks, paper and ink stones.

Travel Essentials

• Open: February 16 to February 24, 2018 (1st to 9th of the first Chinese lunar month)
• Address: 9 Baiyun Temple Street, Baiyun Road, Xicheng District 西城区白云路白云观街9号.
• How to get there: Take bus 26, 45, 80, 319 or 717 to Baiyun Temple Station, and walk about 180 meters. Or take bus 9, 26, 40, 47, 54, 80, 213, 661, 662, 673, or 741 to the West Station of Tianning Temple Bridge, and walk about 200 meters.

6. Hongluo Temple Fair

Need to encounter a more quelled, valid sanctuary encounter? Get away from the groups in the downtown area and take a transport out to Hongluo Sanctuary in Huairou region. Partake in petition gatherings and associate with Buddhist culture, or partake in the dance companies and conventional snacks in the grand sanctuary yard.

• Go here for: Serenity and authenticity.
• Admission: 30 CNY
• Address: 2 Hongluodong Road, Huairou District 怀柔区红螺东路2号
• Getting there: Take bus 936 from Dongzhimen Bus station, then take a short taxi ride to the temple.

7. Dragon Spring Temple Fair of Fenghuang Mountain

Mythical beast Spring Sanctuary Fair at Fenghuang Mountain has a progression of exercises including endowments for fortune and wellbeing, the Winged serpent Spring Sanctuary gatherings, vegan food, and Ping’an noodles. The diversion exercises of the sanctuary fair are likewise joined with the society customs of Fenghuang Mountain, incorporating blossom shows with a neighborhood flavor.

8. Old Summer Palace Temple Fair

Old Summer Castle Sanctuary Fair has a long history. In the Ming and Qing administrations, particularly during the prospering rule of Head Qianlong (1735-96), aside from allowing dinners and prizes to the dukes and priests by the sovereign, different sorts of celebratory exercises would likewise be held in the castle, like light dramas, wrestling, equestrianism, tumbling and fire exhibitions.

With the subject of “encountering imperial life” and based on conventional sanctuary fairs, it is an unmistakable sanctuary fair in Beijing. Showing the exceptional culture of the imperial family and Manchu individuals, there are beautifications of royal residence lights, winged serpent segments and mythical beast banners.

9. Lotus Pond Temple Fair

Lotus Lake Sanctuary Fair formally dispatches exercises from the second day of the primary month of the lunar schedule. On the early morning of that day, most individuals who go to Mammon Sanctuary to ask are on bicycles, aside from the head honchos and high authorities. They wear silk cotton-cushioned outfits, with mandarin coats or sleeveless coats outwardly and little felt caps on their heads.

The travelers start from the Entryway of Unavoidable Harmony inside the city toward the south. They travel toward the breeze (on the grounds that a north-westerly twist generally blows in winter in Beijing), yet they need to head contrary to the natural flow whenever they have passed the Entryway of Unavoidable Harmony.

At around one pretty far from Mammon Sanctuary, stalls selling incense, red candles and joss papers are omnipresent on the side of the road. The initial thing to do in the wake of venturing into the sanctuary is to venerate Mammon. With incense smoke and lit candles all over, a pleasant ringer likewise chimes out in the sanctuary.

10. Grand View Garden Temple Fair

Excellent View Nursery, known as Daguanyuan in Mandarin, is a nursery straight out of the pages of “A Fantasy of Red Houses”, an exemplary Chinese book. It likewise is the site of one of numerous Beijing celebrations that are essential for Spring Celebration festivities.

Garden Recreated in 1980s

Great View Nursery was made during the 1980s, with highlights in light of the eighteenth century novel. The television series “A Fantasy of Red Manor” was shot there, in the midst of the counterfeit lakes, painstakingly finished nurseries and royal residences that cover 32 sections of land. The Beijing Red Chateau Culture and Craftsmanship Historical center is situated on the grounds.

Many Activities

A variety of activities take place during the festival. Visitors should go early so they won’t miss the big parade, a scene from the novel, that starts the day. The parade is led by Yuanchun, who is returning home after becoming an imperial concubine.

Entertainment inside the garden includes singers, dancers and acrobats taking the stage. Hungry visitors can munch on a variety of snacks as well as play Chinese-style carnival games.

Travel Essentials

The celebration is a famous occasion, drawing huge groups. It’s really smart to go right on time to see everything before it gets excessively pressed.

Da Guan Yuan is situated at 12 Nancaiyuan Road, Xicheng Locale, in southwest Beijing. Transports 474, 122, and 84 stop at Daguanyuan, while Te 12 stops there and at Daguanyuan Ximen (the ‘west door’).