Historically, the area around Yuanbao Temple was known as Laicuobu, named after Lai family from Pinghe County that settled there.

[1][2] After the end of Martial law in Taiwan, in 1988, Yuanbao Temple made a pilgrimage to Baijiao Ciji Temple [zh] in Longhai District, Fujian Province, to "refill" the spiritual energy of the deity.

[3][4] The largest annual festival at Yuanbao Temple is the birth of Baosheng Dadi, celebrated between the tenth to fifteenth day of the third month in the Chinese calendar.

During the festival, a parade of worshippers tour the six largest villages in the original seventeen, spending one day in each village in this order: Houlongzi, Mayuantou, Qiucuozi, Sanshizhangli, Erfenpu, and Laicuopu.

After its return, worshippers regard this statue as the most powerful in the temple's possessions.