The 2018 Guangzhou Watertown Cultural Festival will be held on November 24 at Qilin Square, Huangge Town, Nansha District. The event themed on “Pearl of Bay Area, Beautiful Nansha”, focuses on cultural, artistic and ornamental features, and highlights the cultural elements of the Dawan District. The activities are divided into two parts: the opening ceremony and the cultural show. The opening ceremony takes the local cultural elements of the Huangge as the main line and present the unique traditional water town style.

As an intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province, Huangge Qilin Dance has been well-known and served as a beautiful cultural card of Nansha. Thriving in the town since the end of the Qing Dynasty, rooted in Huangge, Qilin culture has been fully integrated into the customs of local people. Over the past 100 years, Huangge Qilin Dance, after tempering of the times, has become more and more dazzling and prosperous. It is learned that folk art parades such as Qilin Dance, Lion Dance, and opera will be held throughout the day so that the audience will be able to enjoy the charm of traditional culture.

After more than ten years of development, Guangzhou Water Town Cultural Festival has become a cultural card in Nansha District. Each session of the Water town Cultural Festival activities is constantly integrating cultural resources and tourism resources, enhancing cultural soft power, and demonstrating the spiritual outlook of Nansha to the society, so as to contribute to the rapid development of Nansha in the construction and development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Greater Bay Area.