As the Spring Festival approaches, major hotels in Guangzhou are rolling out unique cultural activities, offering immersive experiences for residents and visitors to welcome the Chinese New Year in a unique way.
The White Swan Hotel offers luxurious river-view rooms as a special Spring Festival treat. It has curated a series of cultural experience courses, including intangible cultural heritage bamboo weaving, wind chime accessories, plant dyeing, replication of Tang Dynasty pattern paintings, and platinum burning paintings.
The intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting is displayed on a table at the White Swan Hotel.
The props of the intangible cultural heritage shadow play.
The LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou will also launch festive New Year fairs, wonderful New Year performances, and a variety of handicraft workshops, among other Spring Festival activities.
The New Year Fair event in the lobby on the first floor of the LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou.
The handicraft workshop activity at the LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou. 
The wonderful New Year interaction performances at the LN Garden Hotel Guangzhou.
The China Hotel has also organized a series of activities, including a lion dance performance on the first day of the Chinese New Year, handwritten couplets on the second day, rubbing of inscriptions for good fortune activities, DIY picture frame and refrigerator magnet activities from the third to the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, and a postcard stamping activity on the sixth day.
The lion and dragon dance outside the China Hotel.
China Hotel offers travel photography services for guests visiting the Lantern Festival at Yuexiu Park during the Spring Festival.
A dozen hotels under the LN Hospitality brand will launch a variety of unique Spring Festival activities to welcome the Chinese New Year. These include the post-stamp themed event and the red envelope rubbing event.
The post-stamp themed event
The rubbing of red envelopes
Meanwhile, Lanshanyuan Lingnan Oriental Hot Spring Hotel will feature intangible cultural heritage Yao embroidery, Yao ethnic song and dance performances, and luminous dragon parade activities, allowing you to enjoy an unforgettable Spring Festival with your family and friends.
Guests staying at LN Garden Boutique, Shunde Guangdong Hotel can experience the intangible cultural heritage "Super New Year" of the Foshan area in the resort for free. The hotel also offers other fun activities such as Shunde silk fan making and gambiered Canton gauze dyeing, which will definitely enhance your hotel stay experience.
The LN Dongfang Hotel collaborates with Yuexiu Park to host the Spring Festival Lantern Festival and launches a series of marketing activities. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, there will be a lion dance performance too. From the second to the fourth day, DIY activities will be held. From the fifth to the sixth day, there will also be parent-child pastry-making activities.
The parent-child pastry-making activity at the LN Dongfang Hotel.
The finished product of the intangible cultural heritage Tuanshan (团扇) at the LN Dongfang Hotel.
At the Jumeirah Guangzhou, from the first to the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, you can participate in the intangible cultural heritage art rubbing of inscriptions for red envelope making, candied hawthorn skewer making, and tea breaks. You can also enjoy a gift box of Guangcai (the Canton famille rose porcelain) artworks.
Jumeirah Guangzhou
The New Year gift box presented by Jumeirah Guangzhou.
Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou welcomes the Year of the Snake with an extraordinary program of festivities. Marvel at the spectacular southern lion dance performance on Chinese New Year's Day, January 29, 2025, from 8:30 am.
The cultural festivities continue at the 70F lobby from January 29 to February 4, 2025, where guests can immerse themselves in Chinese artistic traditions each afternoon. Watch as master calligraphers demonstrate their craft during spring couplets writing sessions, where graceful brushstrokes transform into auspicious blessings.
(Photo: Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou)
Author | Wang Yullin (intern), Liu Lingzhi
Editor | James, Shen He, Zhang Ying
Photo | Courtesy of the hotels mentioned in the article
