The Spring Festival is another major celebration. Besides eating, folk recreations play a major role in the festivities. These include: dragon dance, lion dance, folk art parade, fish-lantern dance, lantern-boat dance, triumph drum dance, and fireworks.

The folk art parade is the most popular performance. It is a striking scene where the stage for performances is carried by grown-ups and the children actors and actresses leap and dance as the stage moves through the town. All participants are dressed in colorful traditional costumes. The cheering crowds along the parade route contribute to the excitement. It is a vivid cultural experience well worth the trip.

The dragon dance performed in the area is different from those of other places -- the Huangshan "dragon" is made up of benches decorated with lanterns. Because it was inconvenient for the scattered inhabitants of the mountain region to get together to make and keep a public dragon, the bench dragon was invented by linking benches together. On the day of the dance, households each bring their own bench to form part of the dragon. Men from every family take part in the show, one man holding one bench, with the dragons sometimes consisting of as many as one hundred benches. This is a dramatic display of unity and cooperation. The dragon is carried along a mountain path as if snaking up the hillside and the lanterns shine like fire in the dark.