Lishan Old Mother Temple is located in Xixiuling, Lishan, Lintong District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province. According to legend, Nu Wa, the mother of Mount Li, used to fill the sky in this mountain, and later taught the secret meaning of Li Zhi's Yin Fu Jing under this mountain during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. The temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and was greatly renovated in the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (16 19), so the existing buildings basically belong to the Ming and Qing dynasties. The whole building includes five mountain gates, three immortal halls, five sacrificial halls, five main halls, six wing rooms and four auxiliary halls. Xiao Yun, Xiao Qiong and Bixiao, three immortals known as "longevity, eye protection and child rearing", are enshrined in Sanxian Hall. The main hall is dedicated to the golden statue of Lishan's mother (Nuwa). In the eighth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1635), a Buddhist scripture building was built behind the main hall (it was destroyed in the Republic of China, but its current site still exists). In recent years, the Taoist temple has completely renovated the platform and road in front of the temple, and newly built stone steps into the temple.
The iron pot and iron tube cast in the 16th year of Wanli (1588) are still preserved in the mountain gate of the old mother's temple, and there is a cast iron chin of Ming Dynasty in front of the old mother's statue. There is a memorial tablet of "Shan Li Mother's Classic" set up in the first year of Tang Guangde (763), which describes the process of Li Zhi teaching "Yin Fu Classic" at the foot of Shan Li in Tang Dynasty.
Every year, the 20th of the first month, 8th of April and 15th of June are the Lishan Mothers' Meeting, and the worshippers are mostly elderly women.
Dictionary of Taoism (Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House, 1994), edited by Chinese Taoist Association, p. 844, "Lishan Old Mother Hall".