Located in Hanting District of Weifang, the Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden, also known as the Yangjiabu tourist attraction, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It covers an area of 350 mu (approximately 23.3 hectares) and mainly exhibits Chinese New Year paintings, kites and folk customs. The garden houses the “Wen Run Tower”, a building that garners cultural quintessence with a collection of 1,000-year-old artistic wonders; the “Kite Museum”, a museum that brings together exquisite Chinese kites; and the “New Year Paintings Museum”, a museum that displays the classics of Yangjiabu New Year woodblock paintings famous both at home and abroad. The Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden is recognized as a demonstration base for the productive protection of national intangible cultural heritage, an intangible cultural heritage museum under the “rural memory project”of Shandong, and a workstation of traditional techniques of Shandong. It blends the unique folklore of New Year paintings and kites to demonstrate the cultural features of Hanting from multiple perspectives.

Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden in Hanting District, Weifang

Yangjiabu Kite Museum in the garden

Yangjiabu Kite Museum in the garden

New Year painting workshop in the garden

New Year paintings exhibited in the garden

Folk art master Yan Kechen is demonstrating the ancient block printing in the garden

Arts and crafts master Yang Meijie is demonstrating the technique of printing New Year paintings in the garden

A kite maker is coloring a kite

A post-90s university student is learning how to make paper kites