Nanyue District has 10 art performance group, 13 cultural center, 1/public library,1museum and 4 memorial halls. Integrate and organize outstanding creative personnel to create six new dramas, such as Sesame Official's Counterfeiting, Under the Chair Peak, and Bells in the Distant Mountains. * * * won 2 national gold medals and 4 provincial gold medals. Organized literary and art groups to participate in various competitions such as songs, dances and operas, and won 16 national, provincial gold, silver and bronze awards. Hold a large-scale singing competition to celebrate July 1st, and hold various cultural activities such as square culture, tourism culture, festival culture and "going to the countryside" and "getting close to the countryside". The cultural industry has promoted the system reform and increased the investment attraction. The cultural industry, which focuses on film and television, drama, training, singing and dancing, and entertainment places, has a good development momentum, with an added value of 820 million yuan, an increase of 13.6% over the previous year. Radio and television have developed rapidly. There are/kloc-0 radio stations in the city, and the comprehensive population coverage rate of broadcasting reaches 98.3%. TV station 1 home, the comprehensive coverage rate of TV population reaches 98.7%. New progress has been made in the radio and television village-to-village communication project. 150 radio and television natural blind villages with more than 50 households and 375 radio and television natural blind villages with more than 20 households have achieved village coverage. There are 355,000 cable TV users and 50,600 digital TV users.

Hengyang people like to watch plays, listen to songs and sing, so there are many kinds of local operas and songs, which are also widely circulated. There are mainly operas, xiang opera, Qi Opera, Dihuagu Opera, Puppet Opera, Shadow Play, Painted Face Opera, Fishing Drum, Sixian Opera, Minor, Lotus Opera, Lianxiang Opera, Border-leading Opera, Buwei Opera, One-man Show, and Yao people laughing and laughing. Hengyang ancient painting drama is one of the popular dramas, which is famous for its "three little" characters Xiao Dan, Xiao Sheng and the clown. It originated in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, and developed from folk songs and dances such as "tea picking tune" in Hengshan and "chariot and horse lantern" in Hengyang. Because of the similar vocal cavity language, it is commonly known as "Hengyang Flower Drum Opera". Later it gradually flowed into other parts of the province. In Hunan Volume of China Dramas edited by 1983, the ancient painting dramas popular in southern Hunan are collectively called "Hengzhou Ancient Painting Drama". Xiang opera is a local opera in Hunan, which flowed in from neighboring counties 300 years ago. Influenced by the local dialect, it gradually evolved into Hengyang xiang opera with Hengyang characteristics. Qi Opera is named after its origin in Qidong and Qiyang. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Yiyang Opera was introduced into Qidong and Qiyang, which was combined with local folk songs, thus giving birth to a new kind of drama-Qi Opera. These operas are in the local dialect, combined with singing and doing, accompanied by musical instruments, which are kind and interesting and very popular with the masses. The ancient painting opera "Strike while the Iron is Hot" was recorded and broadcast nationwide; Xiang opera's Drunk at the Mountain Gate won the first prize of the leading role in the first national drama performance on 1952. In the area of Nanyue ancient town, people will put lights on the water to welcome spring or send it away. The lamp is made of colored paper and refined into a lotus shape. After soaking in cooked tung oil, it is coated with rosin to make it watertight. Pour a little tea oil into the flower core, and then insert the wick. After lighting, put it into various streams inside and outside the ancient town and let it drift. The stream is like a flashing "lantern dragon". There are thousands of people watching the lanterns, and the scene is quite spectacular.

The story of lifting the ground is a unique folk performing art in Hengshan Mountain, Nanyue. Nanyue folk song says, "Other plays are on the stage, and mine is on the street." Folk literati and artisans have compiled stories of heroic deeds in the minds of ordinary people throughout the ages. During the temple fair, people from the Fourth Street of Guzhen were sent to dress up as heroes such as Yang Jiajiang, Yue Fei and Bao Gong, carrying exquisite props and moving while walking. The performance team is accompanied by the "gongs and drums pavilion", and the huqin is suona and the gongs and drums are loud. Sometimes, the "story of lifting the ground" team in the four streets of the ancient town secretly encourages them, and each of them uses 18 kinds of martial arts to dazzle the audience and enjoy it.

Zhu Rong Vulcan has been respected by South Vietnamese people for generations, and the first incense stick is dedicated to him every year. When the bell rings at 0: 00 on New Year's Day, people flock to Nanyue Temple from all directions, which is called "going out of the Heaven". After going out, acquaintances don't say hello when they meet, so as not to "bump into happiness" and pay New Year greetings at dawn. Break a branch when leaving the temple, pick up a few leaves and go home. Tell the housewives to prepare a sumptuous meal quickly. It was not until dawn that the whole family got together to eat "New Year's soup rice". There is a folk song that says, "chickens don't crow, dogs don't bite, and eating in the middle of the night is a Hengshan guy."