Where is the biggest temple fair in North China?

The biggest temple fair in North China is located in Xun County, Hebi City.

Xun County, Hebi City, located in the north of Henan Province, is a national historical and cultural city and a thousand-year-old county. It is a grand temple fair that lasts for one month at the beginning of the Spring Festival every year, with more than 200,000 visitors every day. Xunxian Temple Fair in the first month is as famous as Taishan Temple Fair in Shandong, Baiyun Temple Fair in Shanxi and Miaofengshan Temple Fair in Beijing, and is recognized as the four major temple fairs in North China. The temple fair in Xunxian County in the first month started early, lasted for a long time, was large in scale and had a strong folk flavor, so it enjoyed the reputation of "the first ancient temple fair in North China".

There are two peaks rising from Taihang Mountain outside the old county seat of Xunxian County, and the one on the east side is called Daxian Mountain with an altitude of 135 meters. To the west, this one is located in the south of the old county. Locals call it Nanshan, with an altitude of103m, and it is called Qiu Fu.

Xunxian geographical environment

Xunxian county is located in the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and the south of North China Plain. The middle terrain is slightly higher, and the two sides are relatively flat. The west inclines to the northeast and southeast respectively from Dalai store, and the east inclines to the northeast from southwest. Due to the crustal movement and the frequent breaches and diversions of the ancient Yellow River, a micro-geomorphological pattern is formed, which is dominated by plains and scattered randomly by hills, plains and canals.

There are six hills such as Dabaishan, Qiufushan, Hua Shan, Xiangshan, Baisi and Tongshan in Xunxian County and 1 Huolonggang. The hilly area is about 147.3 square kilometers, accounting for10010.3 square kilometers of the county's total area. Among them, hilly area 130 square kilometers and mountainous area 17.3 square kilometers. The original Phoenix Mountain and Purple Mountain were razed to the ground because of taking mountains and stones.

There are Qihe Plain, Weihe Plain and Old Yellow River Plain in Xunxian County, with a total area of 847.4 square kilometers, accounting for 84.6% of the county's total land area. Qihe Plain is located in the west of the county seat, with an area of 152.7 square kilometers. Weihe Plain is located on both sides of Weihe River east of Huolonggang, covering an area of about 520.5 square kilometers. The Old Yellow River Plain is located in the northeast of the county seat, with an area of about 174.7 square kilometers.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xunxian County