Culture and Art in Qingjian County

The local characteristic folk arts in Qingjian County include Qingjian Taoism, Umbrella Yangko, folk songs, etc.

In March 2004, Qingjian County was named the "Hometown of Chinese Taoism" by the Ministry of Culture. In 2008, Qingjian Taoism was included in the national intangible cultural heritage. The documentary "Qingjian Daoqing" won the Excellence Award at the "Seventh China International Documentary Film Selection Competition". The Taoist romance dramas "Animal Race" and "Meeting the Mother-in-Law" won many provincial and municipal awards. Qingjian Yangko won the special prize in Yulin City's 1991 Spring Festival Yangko Performance. The photographic works "Qingjian Taoist Love" and "My Old Friend and I" won the ribbon award at the North Georgia International Photography Tour Exhibition in September 2010; "Harvest" won the first prize in the Provincial Mass Art Photography Competition in December 2011; The group photos of "Qingjian Red Dates", "Qingjian Slate", "Qingjian Taoism" and "Qingjian Vermicelli" were selected into the "Achievements Exhibition of the 30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up and the 10th Anniversary of Yulin Energy and Chemical Base Construction", and were successively held at Peking University , Tsinghua University, Renmin University touring exhibitions.