1). Paper-cutting
With a long history, paper-cutting has always been one of the most popular folk arts in this land. Represented by Fujia, Fengning County, Chenshi in Qiaozhangzi of Chengde County, Chengde paper-cutting is well-known in the country, and the paper-cutting artists continually go out of the country with their fine works, earn great honor and foreign friends often come here to make purchases.

2). Tengshi Cloth Paste Painting
Tengshi Cloth Paste Painting is three-dimensional art of painting, sculpture, paste and other traditional crafts. Drawing the nutrition of Chinese painting, images, sculpture and painting, as well as the other Chinese and foreign art, it has the three-dimensional effect of oil paintings and traditional Chinese paintings. The material is mainly silks satins, and jinyinsi line with the help of wood, cardboard ,ornaments velvet, and sponge. The painting is a fine combination of crafts of carving, cutting , knotting, embroidery, dyeing , inlay , trimming, zhanhu , and decoration, composed of materials from a few to tens of thousands. Figures, flowers, birds, fish, insects, gods, Buddha, ghosts and monsters on the paintings are all lifelike, fun-filled, and fascinating. Some are graphic with relief effect, some are in the shape of three-dimensional circular cone, which can be placed in any way you like, really ideal embellishments in our houses.

3). Palace Music and “Concert of Qing Palace”
With the Mountain Resort coming into use，palace music similar to that of the capital began to appear in it. Music hall was built on both sides of the courtyard in front of Danpo Keswick Hall, used for performance at the ceremony. Instrumental allocation and band personnel as well as their location are all similar to those of Taihe Hall in Beijing. Outside the Mountain Resort was also a music arena called “sub- palace music”, a kind of music of unique style developed during a hundred years from “palace music” after it got out of the palace of “the Mountain Resort”, which is shown in the form of “Concert of Qing Dynasty”.

4). Folk Music of Manzu
In the civil history of Changde area witch songs used to be extremely popular which was also called“Saman Music”. The word “Saman” comes from Tonggusi language for Chengde, historically, used to be a place of “Manzu language”, a branch of Tonggusi language. The remaining 3 pieces of music, including “ A Tune in Bereavement” were included in the recently published “Collection of the Chinese Folk Songs---Hebei Volume” as representatives of Hebei Saman Music. Besides, As a special place, Chengde has its folk music with unique characteristics---- more or less influenced by “the Palace Music” either in its folk songs or its instrumental music.

5). Dinner Dance in the Palace
“The Dinner Dance in the Palace” is the stagecraft of palace of great national and local characteristics which was created by cultural departments and Changde City Ballet based on the palace music of the Mountain Resort and the folk music in this land. It absorbed the representative music and repertoire from Qing palace and the Mountain Resort, adapted the rich dance vocabulary of Manzu and Mongzu, artfully repeating the palace banquet etiquette customs and art appreciation activities. Different types of performances such as solo and ensemble in singing and instrument-playing, solo dance and group dance are given in an ideal order, really fascinating beyond description.

6). “Peace All over the Nation” and Buddhist Culture and Art Troupe
The full-length Buddhist dance “Peace All over the Nation”, based on the culture of Puning Temple and Buddhism, with Chengde’s historical events as background, is mysterious and beautiful, solemn and respectful. The music and dance add radiance and beauty to each other, graceful and colorful, literally enjoyable. This is the only one in China tailored to the Buddhist Culture and Art Troupe to show the belief freedom as well as the prosperous and happy life of the Chinese people, unfolding a beautiful painting of a peaceful and harmonious China. Up to now, Chengde Buddhist Culture and Art Troupe remains the only professional one in China.

7). Mountain Resort Troupe
Mountain Resort Troupe is composed of hundreds of members in folk music, dance, vocal music, operatic music and acrobatics. It has a strong line-up and various ways of performance: not only the full-length specialty of the Mountain Resort “Welcoming Ceremony to the Entrance of the Resort”, but also “Magnificent Gathering at Wanshuyuan” which gives us a picture of a grand Mongolian banquet held in the Mountain Resort during Kangqian Heyday. To meet the needs of different audience, a number of specialties were created such as “Elegant Palace Music of Qing Dynasty”, “Banquet Music of Qing Palace”, “Local Conditions and Customs in Mongolian Grassland” and “Local Conditions and Customs of Manzu”. The programs were highly spoke of by the people of all walks of life inside and outside China. In recent years, the troupe has participated in many national tours of tourism promotion, visiting Japan for 3 times, sending abroad the world history and cultural heritage of Chengde as well as the Mountain Resort art, publicised Chengde and Chinese civilization, and at the same time expanded Chengde’s social influence.

8). Folk Dances
Since the beginning of the Qing Emperor Kanghsi, variety show has become popular, including all kinds of dance show of national characteristics of Hanzu, Manzu and Mengzu such as: “Jumping and Stamping”( “beating ghosts” in Chinese), “Saiweihu”(“tartar driving boats” in Chinese), “Walking on Stilts”, “ Taiping Drums”, “Wuhu Sticks”, “Hanchuan”, “Beige”, “Taige”, “Dances of Lions and Dragons”, which are very rich, colorful and interesting.