Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Fair Venue

Cultural heritage

The Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Fair venue is the host site of the national-ICH Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Fair, in Xiaolan town, Zhongshan. For the grand jiaxu-year fair and the annual autumn show in recent years, the grounds fill with hundreds of thousands of chrysanthemums trained into "large standing," "pagoda" and "cliff" forms and giant chrysanthemum dragons, alongside Golden Earth concerts, chrysanthemum operas and water-borne floats—the core stage on which the "chrysanthemum city" of Xiaolan shows its floral art and folk custom to the world.

Visiting: Wandering the fair, chrysanthemums of gold, red, purple and white spread like a sea, and a single standing plant may bloom with hundreds or a thousand flowers at once to take the breath away; visitors photograph the floral paths, taste chrysanthemum banquets and wine, and watch water-borne floats and opera, feeling the three-century festive spirit of "meeting friends through the chrysanthemum" in every direction.