During this Spring Festival holiday, Beijing's unique temple fairs and park celebrations are set to bring you non-stop festive joy. Save this guide for easy access to top destinations during the holiday!
Yuanmingyuan's 2026 Spring Festival Park Tour
Here, you can experience an imperial-style Spring Festival that connects past traditions with present festivities. You will see vendors dressed in Qing-Dynasty attire at a bustling market, alongside lion dances and acrobatic performances. You can also shop for exquisite cultural souvenirs, take part in winter sports, visit the Spring Festival Flower Exhibition, and craft horse-themed heritage items.
Time
Park Tour: February 7–March 3
Flower Exhibition: 09:00–17:00, February 7–10
Market: February 10–March 3
Location
Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park, 28 Qinghua West Road, Haidian District
Badaling Great Wall's Night Performances and Creative Intangible Heritage Festival
This event brings intangible heritage items and hands-on experiences related to paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, and Beijing embroidery onto the ancient Great Wall. It also features light shows with live folk music performances, parades of Hanfu enthusiasts and dragon dancers, interactive performances by staff in costumes, traditional matchmaking contests, and an "intangible heritage live-streaming session" sharing the festive ambiance with the rest of the world.
Dates
February 16–23
Location
Badaling Great Wall, Yanqing District
Spring Festival Celebration at Beijing WTown
You can join lively parades of huahui (collective name for traditional folk performances), stay at boutique guesthouses for the Chinese New Year's Eve, bathe in hot springs overlooking the snow-covered Great Wall, and enjoy a dazzling lantern carnival at night. Here, traditional customs and local charm blend perfectly with stunning technologies.
Dates
February 16–23
Location
Beijing WTown, Simatai Village, Gubeikou Town, Miyun District
2026 New Year Celebration in Wanping
By day, you can make intangible cultural heritage-inspired handicrafts and get Silk Road-themed patterns through rubbing on the main street, then taste global culinary delights on the food street. After dark, the entire area transforms into an immersive light-and-shadow theater with flowing light tunnels and cyber-style Chinese fantasy scenes, offering a visual feast.
Dates
"New Luck" Market: February 15–March 3
"Auspicious Glow" Market: February 17–19
Location
Wanping Fortress, 10 Lugouqiao Nanli, Fengtai District
Trendy Chaoyang Urban Culture Fair
As Beijing's first temple fair for young visitors, this event brings together four popular pandas: Menglan (superstar from Beijing Zoo), Huhu (from the film Panda Plan 2), Bing Dwen Dwen (mascot of the 2022 Winter Olympics), and Youyou (mascot of Sichuan Airlines). Blending Chinese lantern art, tech-powered parades, and immersive markets, the fair creates a new urban destination for sightseeing, entertainment, and shopping during the festive season.
Dates
February 10–March 8
Locations
Chaowai UIC Block's spaces, including Blue Island Tower square, Halls A and B of THE BOX, and Dongyue Cultural Plaza, Chaoyang District
Ditan Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair
This is one of the most iconic traditional temple fairs in Beijing. This year's fair is themed on the "ritual and music culture", offering authentic experiences from the Earth Worship Ceremony to various intangible cultural heritage handicrafts. It also features a metaverse-powered temple fair with live-streaming across the globe, enabling cultural exchanges that transcend time and space.
Dates
February 17–23
Location
Ditan Park, Andingmen Outer Street, Dongcheng District
Longtan Park Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair
The temple fair features interactive robot performances, China-chic parades, AR-based photography spots, and other activities. Traditional Shehuo (a folk performance originating in rituals for deities) is also scheduled to be performed in a unique way. With over 100 food and cultural product stalls, as well as various games like "Find Character 龙", there's plenty to do here!
Dates
February 17–23
Location
Longtan Park, 8 Longtan Road, Dongcheng District
Changdian Temple Fair
It is recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage item of China. You can watch traditional costume performances, take a relaxing stroll along a 100-meter-long corridor full of poetic lanterns, taste tanghulu (candied haws on a stick) inspired by the Beijing Central Axis, and even get calligraphic artworks of the "Fu" (福) character written by master artists completely for free.
Dates
February 17–23
Location
Liulichang East and West Streets, Xicheng District
Dadu Temple Fair
Covering an area of 80,000 square meters, this indoor temple fair features traditional dragon and lion dances, intangible cultural heritage workshops, and even some international-style streets and VR activities, taking you on a journey through a modern Chinese New Year combining traditional and future-oriented elements from China and the rest of the world.
Dates
February 17–23
Location
China National Convention Center (Phase II), A20 Datun Road, Chaoyang District
2026 Spring Festival Temple Fair and Lantern Carnival at Shijingshan Amusement Park
This year's events feature various international performances, dazzling light shows, and authentic festive traditions, offering endless joy for both adults and children from day to night.
Dates
February 17–March 8
Location
Shijingshan Amusement Park, 25 Shijingshan Road, Shijingshan District
(Source: Official WeChat account of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism)
