The early temple fair is only one kind of grand sacrificial offering activity, exchanges the need along with the economical development and the people, the temple fair while maintains the sacrificial offering activity, integrates the rural fair transaction activity gradually. By now temple fair also acquired fame is “the temple city”, became the Chinese county fair one important form. Its rural fair transaction activity venue was still located in nearby the temple or its temple.

The hold temple fair has the common practice date. In the spring festival, in the first day of the first lunar month it’s the Dazhong Temple and Dongyuemiao's temple fair; at the second day it’s the wealth temple fair; the third day is the flat peach palace temple fair; at 17th, 18th it’s the white clouds to observe the temple fair. The ordinary day, when happen to be the date number of one, two, nine, ten has the Longfu Temple temple fair; if the number is three, it’s the temple housing the village god temple fair; if it’s five, six tower temple meeting; and if it’s seven, eight has Huguo Temple temple fair. So it seems that the temple fair is nearly daily held in a year.

In the temple fair, there are not only sacrificial offering class commodities but also fragrance, candle and new year's goods and paper-cut window decoration, spring festival couplet, what is more common is some folk arts and crafts, the dead drunk person, the windmill, the diabolo and so on, with each kind of local color snacks. Temple fair period, usually will have the folk vaudeville, the dance, the martial arts performance to cause to visit a temple the meeting national capital common people to feast one's eyes on.

Present's Beijing celebrates in the festival time also restored some to have the cultural tradition festival to be vulgar, including temple fair. These activity's religious color is desalinated, occasionally has imitates the sacrificial offering activity the performance, is also by the entertainment primarily. The active place does not limit nearby the temple or its temple, places such as park, stadium, market have become temple fair's activity venue, therefore then had “will have will not have the temple” the temple fair. The rural fair transaction's content still lively does not reduce, in addition has joined some modernized color recreational activity, increases joyfully for the holiday in national capital common people.