To have a lot of fun outdoors during the Spring Festival, attend one of Beijing's many temple fairs. Temple fairs usually occur from the first to the seventh day of the first month on the lunar calendar. It is one of the city's busiest temple fairs since 1985 and it is the site of the altar where sacrifices were formerly offered to the earth god. This year's fair will climax with a performance reenactment of a Qing Dynasty sacrificial ceremony.

Ditan Temple Fair in Beijing, one of the largest, features with the traditional food and folk art works. Ditan has everything you'd expect of a temple fair, a mixture of the traditional and modern. Performances include martial arts, acrobatics, Peking Opera, pop music and folk dancing.

Vendors from far and wide come to set up shop and sell books, magazines, paintings, toys, tasty snacks, and dried and fresh fruit. There's plenty of food to tempt you including northwest roast mutton cubes, sugar-coated haw berries speared onto meter-long sticks, hot sweet potatoes and sticky pancakes. You can also find traditional Chinese crafts such as kites and painted masks taken from Peking Opera characters to buy.

Acrobats and other performers are on hand to keep the crowds entertained throughout the day.There will be a folk culture garden featuring song and dance of western China, as well as Red Storm Ditan Rock Concert. On the south side of the Sacrificial Altar, visitors can sing karaoke.

Venue: Ditan Park, Dongcheng District

Admissions Fee: 10 yuan

Getting There: Yonghegong (Lama Temple) subway, bus 13, 116 and 62 for the south gate; trolley bus 104, 108, or bus 27, 358, 119, 407, 328, 803 or 912 for the west gate.