The 2020 Weifang Cultural Festival of Chinese New Year Customs & Shandong 
Intangible Cultural Heritage Month & New Year Celebration, a large-scale event 
for Spring Festival celebrations, was recently launched on the Commercial & 
Cultural Street of Weifang Shihu Garden. 

This cultural event is divided into two sections. The first section is the 
Cultural Festival of Chinese New Year Customs, including six activities such as 
the launching ceremony, the 2020 Shandong Weifang Intangible Cultural Heritage 
Assembly for New Year Gifts and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Show for 
Spring Festival Celebration; the second section is the Shihu Garden New Year 
Culture Temple Fair & Lantern Show, which includes twelve activities such as 
Lantern Show, Gourmet Festival and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Featured 
New Year Celebration. 

According to Weifang Release, the WeChat Official Account of the Weifang 
Municipal People's Government, the event aims to improve Weifang's cultural 
taste, enrich people's cultural life during the Spring Festival, highlight the 
artistic and historical values of traditional customs, and meet the growing 
cultural needs of the people.

Weifang, Shandong has profound cultural traditions and numerous intangible 
cultural heritages, such as the Weifang Kites, the Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year 
Paintings and the Gaomi Maoqiang Opera. In particular, the Yangjiabu Woodblock 
New Year Paintings and the Weifang Kites enjoy tremendous popularity in the 
world. 

Source: Weifang Release

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   Caption: As the New Year approaches, the workshops of the Yangjiabu 
Woodblock New Year Paintings are getting busy supplying the festival market. In 
the photo, a worker is sorting out the newly printed New Year paintings.

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   Caption: Inheritors of intangible cultural heritages are performing the 
Chinese yo-yo in the temple fair held in Qingzhou Ancient City Tourist Area in 
Weifang, which attracts many tourists for Spring Festival celebrations.