Linwu County Authority launched the "2025 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day and Linwu Opera Cultural and Art Exhibition in Scenic Area" event in Dishuiyuan Scenic Area on June 14, 2025. Various activities such as opera performances, intangible cultural heritage products exhibition, and intangible cultural heritage food tasting were held to showcase the outcomes of local intangible cultural heritage protection, boosting in-depth integration of intangible cultural heritage and tourism.

Linwu County is the only county-level jurisdiction in Hunan Province designated as a Provincial Opera Culture Ecological Protection (Experimental) Zone. Local culture and tourism departments have actively organized colorful opera culture and art exhibition activities, effectively promoting the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage items in the county. There are now one national-level, six provincial-level, 13 municipal-level, and 31 county-level intangible cultural heritage protection items in the county.

The Linwu Nuo Opera Troupe stages a Nuo Opera show listed as national-level intangible cultural heritage. (Photo/Chen Weiping)

Trainees of the Linwu County Xingqi Art Training School perform a Qi Opera featuring Linwu characteristics. (Photo/Chen Weiping)

The Rishun Art Troupe presents a Linwu local opera performance. (Photo/Chen Weiping)

The Linwu County Qi Opera Inheritance Center stages a Qi Opera show with Linwu characteristics. (Photo/Chen Weiping)

Walking on stilts, young actresses of the Fenshi Town Dingxia Stilts Art Troupe hand out pamphlets on intangible cultural heritage knowledge to tourists. (Photo/Chen Weiping)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: China National Radio