Dragon Boat Festival is here! Beijing's cultural landmarks and scenic areas ignite with vibrant celebrations. Let's discover the highlights below!

2025 Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Activities at Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park

The Yuanmingyuan Park's Dragon Boat Festival festivities weave together its unique cultural heritage, featuring the "Nine Provinces Dragon Boat Race", Yuanmingyuan "Grand Canal Cultural Market", and the "Twelve Floral Deities" themed activities. Creative markets, calligraphy workshops, intangible cultural heritage crafts, and Twelve Floral Deities handicraft stations are waiting for you to participate. Performers embodying the Twelve Floral Deities roam the gardens, engaging visitors with interactive flash mobs and live acts, recreating encounters with figures from classical Chinese paintings.

Dates: May 31 – June 2

Location: Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park, Haidian District

The 12th "Blossoming Fengtai" Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Garden Fair

The garden fair showcases diverse activities including holiday-themed performances, intangible cultural heritage craft experiences, historical-modern themed parades, film screenings with free admission, and interactive folk games. The main stage features daily programs scheduled at designated times, presenting children's shows, China-chic performances, popular music concerts, intangible cultural heritage demonstrations, and cinematic presentations. 

Additionally, the "Dragon Boat Blessings Stamp Hunt" event offers participants chances to win limited-edition gifts like festival gift boxes through lucky draws. Simultaneously, Fengtai District's Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Experience Centre launches a special Dragon Boat Festival venue, where visitors can engage in heritage craft workshops including mugwort bouquet arrangements, herbal sachet making, and traditional Hare God figurine painting.

Dates: May 31 – June 2

Locations: 

Nanyuan Forest Wetland Park, Fengtai District (main venue)

Fengtai District Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Experience Centre (sub-venue)

2025 Beijing Chaoyang International Tea Culture Week

Centering on the "Tea and Opera" theme, the event employs the narrative framework of "One Tea, One Opera, One City" to revitalize cultural consumption through tea-inspired theatrical performances, intangible cultural heritage engagements, and community-based cultural traditions, while creating new consumption scenarios through multi-dimensional strategies.

Dates: 11:00–17:00; 18:00–21:00, May 30 – June 1 

Location: Beijing Prince's Mansion (Jun Wang Fu), 21 Chaoyang Park South Road, Chaoyang District

The First Urban Green Heart Forest Music Week术融合的夏日盛会            

The Music Week features four crossover performances, over 50 folk and jazz concerts alongside artistic interactions, a 5,000-square-meter music market offering trending street food and intangible cultural heritage crafts, and a 7,000-square-meter tech-enhanced camping zone featuring holographic pods.

Dates: May 30 – June 2

Location: Green Heart Open-Air Theatre, Beijing Performing Arts Centre, Tongzhou District

2025 Dragon Boat Festival Gululu Bread Festival      

Centered on the theme "Carb-Artistry, Industrial Romance", the city-level Bread Festival ingeniously integrates Shougang Park's industrial heritage with baking culture, creating immersive experiences that blend gastronomic exploration, cultural storytelling, and interactive entertainment.

Dates: May 31 – June 2

Location: South Square of No.3 Blast Furnace, Shougang Park, Shijingshan District

With a feast of exciting events awaiting, rally your crew -- family and friends -- to dive into Dragon Boat Festival celebrations together. 

(Sources: Official WeChat account of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Shijingshan Culture and Tourism)