The Nuwa Palace complex on Phoenix Mountain (Fenghuangshan) in She County, about 100 kilometres west of Handan, is one of the oldest and most important sites of Nuwa worship in China. Nuwa is the creator goddess of Chinese mythology — she is said to have made humans from yellow clay, and to have repaired the sky with multicoloured stones after a cosmic calamity fractured it. The temple complex includes a series of halls climbing the hillside, with the main shrine at the summit surrounded by forested slopes.
The site has been a place of pilgrimage since at least the sixth century and probably longer. The buildings have been rebuilt multiple times, but the ritual continuity is genuine: the spring pilgrimage festival (Miaohui), held in the third lunar month, draws visitors from across northern China and is an extraordinary spectacle of popular devotion, folk performance, and commercial activity that fills the mountain path for days.
Outside festival season the site is quieter and the mountain scenery — limestone crags, old trees, and distant views over the Taihang foothills — is genuinely beautiful.