What is the Grandma Temple in Xishan used for?

Houshan, Yixian County, Hebei Province is located in the north of Yixian County 15km Hongya Mountain. Distance from Beijing 120km, distance from Tianjin 180km and distance from Shijiazhuang 240km. There are ancient temples on the mountain with a long history. The main temple is the temple of the late local tyrant, commonly known as "Houshan Temple" or "Houshan Grandma Temple". Legend has it that Wang Mang chased Liu Xiu and was rescued by an old woman at a critical moment. After Liu Xiu became emperor, she named her grandmother "an example from heaven and became a local emperor", and allocated a lot of money to build temples and sculpt golden bodies for sacrifice. Grandma Houshan's faith is very popular. Including Beijing area, such as Fangshan District, the south Shangle area is called Xishan, Zhuozhou City and Laishui County adjacent to Fangshan are also called Xishan, Dingxing area is called Grandma Beishan, and Yixian County is called Houshan. They are all called differently according to their own orientation. Some believers in Fangshan area have to rush to the west to burn incense on New Year's Eve, and their mouths are muttering to themselves, to the effect that grandma Xishan should bless them. Every year, there is a temple fair from the first day to the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, during which people are crowded. There is no need for tickets for this mountain. Believers come from several provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and it is very lively. The clergy who come to this mountain are Taoists, Taoists and monks. There are many Buddhist and Taoist gods on the mountain, full of folk beliefs. Zhuozhou also has a grandmother temple in Xishan, called Taining Palace, which is managed by the Taoist Association of Hebei Province.

At Houshan Temple Fair, friends who want to go can take a long-distance bus at Lize Bridge. The first bus to Yixian leaves at 6: 50 in the morning and can go back and forth on the same day. The fare is more than twenty yuan. Many buses such as 6 822 937 958 can go to Lizeqiao long-distance station. The last bus from Yixian to Beijing takes more than two hours to drive around four o'clock in the afternoon, and there are small customers in the temple fair (from the county seat to Houshan). The entrance fee is about five yuan. This mountain is about 0/5 km north of the county seat.