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[2025 Guangzhou Attraction] Travel Guide for Guangzhou Cultural Park (Updated Feb)

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Located on the banks of the Pearl River, Guangzhou Cultural Park is a park named after culture. The cultural park was formerly known as the South China Native Products Exhibition and Exchange Conference in 1951, later called the Lingnan Cultural Relics Palace, and was renamed Guangzhou Cultural Park in 1956. At present, the park is a special park with cultural and art exhibitions and performances as its main content, with profound Lingnan cultural traditions and a good ecological environment. For more than 50 years, there have been various exhibitions in the park. The central stage performs day and night Sheng and Song. The three traditional grand events of the Spring Festival Flower Festival, the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival and the Yangcheng Chrysanthemum Festival have been well-known for decades. There are also colorful entertainment activities such as storytelling and chess. , lantern riddles, singing parties, folk arts, etc., are very popular among tourists. The park has complete exhibition facilities. There are many exhibition halls such as Exhibition Center, Hall 9, Hall 7, Hall 4 and Yilu. It also has two permanent halls, Aquatic Products Hall and Wanzhaoquan Sculpture Hall, as well as a comprehensive mass cultural activity base. - Chess Art Museum. The park often exhibits exhibitions related to culture, economy, politics and international exchanges in the form of self-organization, co-organization, and co-organization. There are countless exhibitions held in the past few decades. Top ten cultural brand activities: 1. Spring Festival Huacai "Spring Festival Flower Fair" began in 1957 during the Lunar New Year. By carefully planning the theme, innovating the design of the scene group, and properly arranging cultural activities, it dresses the cultural park into a sea of flowers that is full of flowers, happy and peaceful. Among them, the "Yuanxiao Lantern Festival", as the highlight of the "Spring Festival Flower Festival", also pushed the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival to a climax. Now, the "Spring Festival Flower Fair" has become an extension of the New Year's Eve flower market. It is a good place for Guangzhou citizens to celebrate the Spring Festival, enjoy the spring, and feel the traditional Chinese New Year atmosphere. 2. Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival The "Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival" started in 1956 and is held every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The lanterns in the cultural park are bright in color and exquisite in craftsmanship. They integrate the craftsmanship of Sichuan and Foshan. Today, it has become a pleasure for Guangzhou citizens to go to the cultural park to watch the lanterns and admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. 3. Yangcheng Chrysanthemum "Yangcheng Chrysanthemum Fair" began in 1953 and is held in mid-November every year. It is a large-scale chrysanthemum exhibition that has been held in Guangzhou. The purpose of Yangcheng Chrysanthemum Association is to carry forward the long and profound chrysanthemum culture tradition in Lingnan and inherit the chrysanthemum cultivation skills. It has been loved by Guangzhou citizens for many years. 4. Wuyang Yizhai "Wuyang Cup" national chess competition started in 1980. It is a domestic folk chess competition. The contestants are all domestic masters, representing the high level of Chinese chess. Every year around New Year's Day, the "Wuyang Cup" meets with chess fans as scheduled. A large chessboard is hung on the center stage to sing chess, and the audience is crowded to observe and discuss, which has become a major landscape of the cultural park and a feature of Lingnan chess culture. 5. The Guangzhou Youth Calligraphy and Painting Competition for Children has been held annually since 2004, with the aim of inheriting the treasures of traditional Chinese art and cultivating and selecting new talents. The competition gathered many young calligraphy and painting elites in Yangcheng, showing the strong development potential of Guangdong's calligraphy and painting province. 6. The "Yangcheng Ancient Altar" in the Common People's Ancient Altar Cultural Park is an ancient altar in Guangzhou in the 1950s and 1960s in the heyday of ancient teaching, and it is also a place where ancient people like to talk about ancient. In recent years, the Cultural Park has restored the ancient lecture altar and invited Yan Zhitu, a well-known ancient lecturer, to give lectures at the Chess Art Museum every Saturday afternoon. 7. Stage Shengge "Mass Cultural Activities Square" is a cultural activity performance venue carefully built by the park for the general public. It takes the central platform as the core, relies on the central platform square, and provides professional supporting facilities. The innovative model of "Mass Cultural Activity Square" has cooperated with many folk performance groups, social enterprises and news media to expand the service function of the center desk, and won the third prize of the 2006 "Municipal Landscape Bureau Service Innovation Award". 8. Yilu Moxiang Yilu was formerly known as "Guangzhou Gallery", with the purpose of promoting Lingnan culture and creating a base for the exchange of calligraphy and painting art. Through such activities as exhibitions of works by famous calligraphy and painting masters and public scrutiny, it attracts well-known figures in the field of calligraphy and painting at home and abroad to gather and exchange regularly, and explore the artistic heritage of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting with a history of more than 50 years in the cultural park. 9. Chess Art Xinhui Chess Art Museum is a comprehensive performance venue. In addition to traditional chess art and chess competitions, it also holds various forms of mass cultural activities such as folk art, light songs, lantern riddles, ancient times, mass singing sessions, and cultural and art lectures. The vast number of folk art lovers and chess lovers provide a platform for communication and improvement. 10. Aquatic Products Haiyun Aquatic Products Museum is located in the east of the central square of the park. It was built in June 1951. It is a domestic aquatic product museum built after the founding of New China. In the exhibition hall, various sea and freshwater animal and plant specimens, pictures and models are displayed for a long time. It is an important window to introduce the general situation and development of Guangdong's marine and fishery production.

Address:
No.37 Xiti' 2nd Road , Liwan District, Guangzhou 510130, China
Recommended sightseeing time:
2-3 hours
Phone:
020-81290585
Ticket Price
Free entry
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