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cultural seasonal Moon Hill (Yueliang Shan), 阳朔县

Mid-Autumn Moonrise at Moon Hill

中秋节 · Zhōngqiūjié

Sep 25, 2026

(lunar calendar: month 8, day 15)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ RENAMED AND REFRAMED: the previous site event 'Folk Song Singing Festival' claimed young Zhuang men and women gather at Moon Hill specifically to exchange courtship songs on Mid-Autumn night. No source supports a location-specific song tradition at Moon Hill. This claim appears to have combined two separate, individually real facts: (1) Moon Hill is a popular Mid-Autumn moon-viewing spot with lantern riddles, lion dance, and lantern-making (confirmed, directly fetched), and (2) Zhuang 歌圩 (antiphonal courtship-song fairs) genuinely occur in autumn/Mid-Autumn somewhere in Guangxi (confirmed via the national ICH registry), but no source places this specifically at Moon Hill or in Yangshuo.
  • ⚠ Yangshuo county is majority Han Chinese (87.85% per the 1990 census, the most specific figure found; Zhuang is the largest minority but not dominant), the 'young men and women of the Zhuang minority' framing overstates the ethnic specificity of Moon Hill's own Mid-Autumn tourism, which is not documented as an ethnic-minority tradition.
  • ⚠ This event is kept on the calendar under a corrected name and description (moon-viewing + lantern activities) rather than removed, since the underlying Mid-Autumn/Moon-Hill tourism draw is real and sourced; the courtship-song framing specifically was dropped.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural heritage Xingping Town, 阳朔县

Xingping Temple Fair

兴坪庙会 · Xìngpíng Miàohuì

Oct 28, 2026

(lunar calendar: month 9, day 19)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ IMPORTANT LIMITATION: the Baidu Baike source above could not be directly fetched (HTTP 403, blocks automated access, same issue as on the Baisha event). All content is via search-engine snippet only, consistent across two separate queries, but not independently read on the page itself. A provincial Tier A lead (mzt.gxzf.gov.cn, Guangxi civil affairs department, page title '千年古镇：兴坪镇') was also found but the server refused the connection (ECONNREFUSED) on every attempt, a human editor should try this link directly in a browser before this event's confidence is raised.
  • ⚠ Two-source rule not met: effectively one underlying source. Confidence kept at 'low' and next_review_due shortened accordingly.
  • ⚠ Lunar 9/19 is 观音得道日 (Guanyin's Enlightenment Day), not her 2/19 birthday, the previous site text just said 'honoring Guanyin' without specifying which of her three annual observance days; this is now specific.
  • ⚠ '~400 years old' is itself hedged in the source ('据说' = 'reportedly/it is said'), not a hard-dated claim, do not present as a firm fact.
  • ⚠ 'Sacrificial rites' (previous site wording) overstates what sources describe: it is Buddhist incense-burning and temple ceremony (进香/佛事), not an animal-sacrifice ritual.
  • ⚠ Additional confirmed activities beyond the previous site text: 对山歌 (antiphonal folk-song dueling) alongside the already-listed dragon/lion dance and opera performances.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural harvest Liugong Village, Puyi Township, 阳朔县

Puyi "October Fragrance" Harvest Festival

十成节 (十月香) · Shíchéngjié (Shíyuèxiāng)

Nov 18–19, 2026

(lunar calendar: month 10, day 10)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ IMPORTANT: exact lunar day is NOT independently confirmed. The only source found confirms lunar month 10 but not the specific day. lunar_date.day (10) was set by REVERSE-COMPUTING the previous (unsourced) site date of 'Nov 18, 2026' through src/lib/lunarDate.js, which resolves to lunar 10/10 (十月初十), a culturally plausible round number, but this is an inference from the old site's uncited date, not a source-confirmed day. 2026 has no leap 10th month (confirmed via LunarYear.fromYear(2026).getLeapMonth() = 0), so leap_month_policy is not actually in play here, it is set to the safe default 'prefer_regular_month'. A human editor should try to find a direct source for the exact day before this event goes live.
  • ⚠ Official/correct name is 十成节, locally nicknamed 十月香 ('October Fragrance'), 'October Sweetness' on the previous site is a mistranslation (香 = fragrance/aroma, not sweetness).
  • ⚠ Venerated deities are 周文王 and 周武王 (King Wen and King Wu of Zhou), worshipped at 双岐宫 (Shuangqi Temple), not previously mentioned on the site, now added.
  • ⚠ The 'masked dragon and lion dance' claim on the previous site conflates two separate traditions: 舞龙/舞狮 (dragon/lion dance) is unmasked, while the masked performance is a separate 傩舞 (nuo/exorcism dance) performed by ritual masters (武道师). Corrected to list both separately.
  • ⚠ "Fine wine" (previous site) is a loose gloss of "买酒肉庆祝" (buying wine and meat to celebrate), kept as general festive food/drink, not a specific wine claim.
  • ⚠ No source found confirming or denying a non-annual cycle (unlike Baisha); treated as annual by default, but this is an absence of contrary evidence, not a positive confirmation.
  • ⚠ Two-source rule not met, a single Chinese Wikipedia entry is the only source for nearly all facts here (name, deities, activities). Confidence kept low; next_review_due shortened.
  • ⚠ No Tier A source found despite targeted searches on yangshuo.gov.cn for 普益/十月香/十成节/留公村.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural seasonal Yangshuo Town and surrounding villages, 阳朔县

Winter Solstice (Dongzhi)

冬至 · Dōngzhì

Dec 22, 2026
Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ '2,000-year-old tradition' (previous site text) corrected to 2,500 years, per two independent Tier A sources (People's Daily and China News Service, both citing the Han-dynasty official holiday status and Zhou-dynasty ritual roots).
  • ⚠ Date is a solar term (节气), not a lunar calendar day, computed via lunar-javascript's solar-term table, cross-checked against an independent search result confirming 2026-12-22, and against the library's own 2025 value (2025-12-21).
  • ⚠ Tangyuan (glutinous rice balls) as the Dongzhi food is a general South China / Guangxi-region pattern (vs. jiaozi/dumplings in North China), not a source specifically confirmed for Yangshuo itself, presented as regional custom, not a Yangshuo-specific documented fact.
  • ⚠ REMOVED: the previous site named 'Banyan Tree Yangshuo' as a location for Dongzhi celebrations. No source was found for any Dongzhi-specific event at that resort, this was an unsupported commercial name-drop and has been dropped.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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festival nightlife West Street, 阳朔县

West Street International Beer Festival

西街国际啤酒节 · Xījiē Guójì Píjiǔjié

Dec 31, 2026
Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ Core claim confirmed by a Tier A source (Guilin Daily, the official municipal newspaper): West Street does hold a distinct, named beer festival, not just generic New Year's Eve partying.
  • ⚠ "Since 1999" is only weakly sourced: two secondary sources (one English-language travel-guide Tier C, one Chinese culture-catalog Tier B) name 31 December 1999, but neither was directly fetchable (TLS/connection errors) and no verbatim quote was obtained for the year specifically. Treat 1999 as plausible but not firmly confirmed.
  • ⚠ Core activity description (foreign street performers + local traditional dance mixing, climaxing in a beer-drinking competition) matches what sources describe, no correction needed there.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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national holiday Yangshuo Town (West Street + Xingping), 阳朔县

Lunar New Year (Spring Festival)

春节 · Chūnjié

Feb 5–7, 2027

(lunar calendar: month 1, day 1)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ "Yangshuo Park" (阳朔公园) exists as a real location in Guilin, but no source links dragon dances to it specifically, that claim from the previous site text was dropped.
  • ⚠ Confirmed dragon-dance programming: a government-organized (阳朔县兴坪镇人民政府) 舞草龙 (grass-dragon dance) performance at Xingping, documented for the 2025 edition (12 Feb 2025). A West Street lion/dragon parade on New Year's Day and the 5th day is also reported, but that specific claim came only from a search-result summary, not a page I fetched myself, treat as lower confidence than the Xingping item.
  • ⚠ "Endless firecrackers" is an overstatement: Yangshuo county has a defined no-fireworks zone in the core town with fines (100-500 RMB) for violations outside the permitted strip and hours (除夕 through 正月十六, 06:00-00:30).
  • ⚠ The Xinhua (新华网广西频道) source is cited as Tier A based on the publisher and an accessible headline about Spring Festival visitor numbers; the full article body could not be fetched (TLS error on their CDN) and is not itself quoted here.
  • ⚠ start_offset_days (-1) covers 除夕 (New Year's Eve) through the 2nd day, reflecting that family-reunion-dinner night is culturally as central as the calendar day itself; this is an editorial modeling choice, not a sourced claim.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural heritage Yulong River, near Yulong Bridge, 阳朔县

Dragon Boat Festival

端午节 · Duānwǔjié

Jun 9, 2027

(lunar calendar: month 5, day 5)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ The race takes place on the Yulong River near Yulong Bridge, not the Li River, the previous site text's 'Li River & Yulong River' claim is only supported for the Yulong River half.
  • ⚠ 'Locals throw zongzi into the river' could not be confirmed for Yangshuo specifically; softened to 'zongzi are made and shared', the only part confirmed by sources.
  • ⚠ A separate evening event, 金龙巡游 (a lit dragon-figure night parade at Yulong Bridge), exists alongside the daytime race, documented for a 31 May-1 June window in a different recent year, do not conflate its dates with the lunar 5/5 race date.
  • ⚠ No Tier A source found; two independent Tier B publishers (桂视网 and 本地宝) corroborate the Yulong River race, satisfying the two-source rule for that specific claim.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural heritage Fuli Town, 阳朔县

Fuli "May 8th" Folk Culture Festival

福利五月八 · Fúlì Wǔyuèbā

Jun 12–16, 2027

(lunar calendar: month 5, day 8)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ Lunar date 5/8 independently cross-checked: computing month 5 day 8 for 2026 with src/lib/lunarDate.js yields 2026-06-22, exactly matching the previously hardcoded (unsourced) date on the live site, strong circumstantial confirmation the original date was lunar-calendar-accurate even though undocumented.
  • ⚠ The Xinhua/gx.cri.cn (Tier A) source for this festival's existence and annual organization by 镇党委政府 was found via search-index snippets; direct page fetches timed out twice and were not independently re-verified, treat the Tier A classification as publisher-based, not content-verified.
  • ⚠ Duration is reported as '5 to 10 days' (会期一般为时五至十天) in Tier B sources; duration_days is set to the conservative low end (5) and start_offset_days to 0 because which specific day is 'day 1' of the range was not confirmed.
  • ⚠ Venerated deities are 公公 and 婆婆 (grandfather/grandmother temple gods), each with their own temple. 'Godfather and Godmother' (previous site wording) is a loose but risky translation (mafia connotation in English); use 'Gonggong and Popo deities' instead.
  • ⚠ Food is specifically 三酿 (San Niang): 茄子酿/辣椒酿/苦瓜酿 (stuffed eggplant/pepper/bitter melon with meat filling), this replaces the vague 'local Niang cuisine' wording.
  • ⚠ 'Tiger dances, floats, open-air films, street competitions' (previous site claims) are not supported by any source found and were dropped. Confirmed activities: tall lantern procession to two temples, 100+ carried deity statues, lion dance, lantern games (耍牌灯), stilt walking (踩高跷), paper Eight Immortals figures (八仙纸扎), folk performances, and Guixi opera (桂剧).
  • ⚠ Origin dated to the Qing dynasty Kangxi era (1662-1722) per sources, 'legendary' framing from the previous site is replaced with this dated origin. Listed on Guangxi's autonomous-region-level intangible cultural heritage register since 2016 (6th batch) per the research summary, but no directly-verifiable registry URL was obtained, treat this specific claim as unconfirmed pending a human check.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural harvest Baisha Town, 阳朔县

Baisha Shixin Festival ("Try the New Harvest")

白沙试新节 · Báishā Shìxīnjié

Jul 24–26, 2027

(lunar calendar: month 6, day 23)

Traditional date – not yet confirmed
  • ⚠ Only one Chinese source (Bendibao, Tier B) states the festival has been held once every three years, not annually, since its renaming to 试新节. The two-source rule is not met for this high-impact claim: no independent second source or Tier A source was found. The cycle anchor year is unknown, do not assume 2026 is an edition year.
  • ⚠ No Tier A source (Yangshuo county government, culture bureau, Guangxi Daily/Xinhua) was found for this event despite targeted searches on yangshuo.gov.cn and gxzf.gov.cn. Status can therefore not be 'officially_confirmed'.
  • ⚠ The Baidu Baike entry 白沙试新节 (baike.baidu.com/item/白沙试新节/10703340) exists but blocked automated access (HTTP 403); its content was not verified and is not used as a source here.
  • ⚠ The nationwide Guandi/Guanyu birthday is 6/24 (sometimes 5/13); no source was found explaining why Baisha specifically observes 6/23. The discrepancy is reported as an observed fact, not an explained 'regional variant', the previous claim on this site implying a documented regional tradition was unsupported.
  • ⚠ "Horseback parades", previously stated on this site, were not found in any consulted Chinese source for this specific festival and have been removed from the description.
  • ⚠ The previous description used "fireworks show" and "抢花炮" (qiang hua pao), both incorrect. The source-confirmed term is 抢炮 (qiang pao): young men compete to grab an object launched skyward by a gunpowder charge, after a ceremony of four salute blasts. 抢花炮 is the name of a different, regulated Zhuang sport at the Sanyuesan festival (三月三), not at this event.
  • ⚠ start_offset_days (-2) is a reasoned estimate from "3-day fair, climax on the 23rd", not confirmed day-by-day by a source. The previously claimed "opera starts on 6/22" could not be confirmed or refuted (no source mentions an opera) and was not carried over.
  • ⚠ Coordinates are township-wide (Wikipedia/Wikidata, Tier C), not the specific fair site; no Chinese source with a precise location was found.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural performing arts Guilin, outdoor venues along the Li River, 桂林市

Guilin Festival (International Performing Arts Festival)

桂林艺术节 · Guìlín Yìshùjié

Date to be announced
Dates TBC
  • ⚠ The event is real and well-documented, organized jointly by Guilin municipal government and the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院). First edition December 2022, annual since.
  • ⚠ 'Lijiang Opera House' (previous site claim) does not exist as a fixed venue for this festival, corrected to outdoor venues along the Li River.
  • ⚠ Recent editions: 2023 (27 Oct-5 Nov, 33 productions/14 countries), 2024 (18 productions/48 performances), 2025 (24 Oct-2 Nov). No 2026 date has been announced yet, status is genuinely 'dates_tbc', not just an unfound source; the annual late-Oct/early-Nov pattern is well-established across 4 editions.
  • ⚠ duration_days (10) is a placeholder based on the 2023 span (27 Oct-5 Nov); it will not be accurate until the 2026 dates are announced.
  • ⚠ A provincial-level Tier A source (广西壮族自治区外事办公室) exists but was unreachable (connection refused) during this research pass; recommend a human editor try it directly in a browser.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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cultural heritage Li River, Xingping segment, 阳朔县

Xingping Cormorant Fishing Lights

兴坪渔火 · Xìngpíng Yúhuǒ

Date to be announced
Dates TBC
  • ⚠ EDITORIAL FLAG FOR HUMAN REVIEW: this item may not belong on an events calendar at all. Research found no source confirming a periodic, publicly-attended 'festival' with a fixed date and organizer. What actually exists, per sources: (1) a year-round bookable photo session where cormorant fishermen pose for photographers (contact number listed on the source, confirming it is a paid service, not a public event), and (2) a commercial photo-tour company package branded '渔火节', offered May-June, contradicting the 'November' date on the previous site version.
  • ⚠ One single Tier B source claims an annual event since 1999 on lunar 8/15 (Mid-Autumn), this directly contradicts the May-June commercial-package framing found elsewhere. The two-source rule is not met for any specific date; do not treat either date as confirmed.
  • ⚠ 'Hundreds of bamboo rafts' (previous site claim) is not supported, sources describing actual sessions mention 3-4 fishermen per shoot, not hundreds of rafts.
  • ⚠ No Tier A source found (no yangshuo.gov.cn or Xingping town government coverage).
  • ⚠ Recommendation for a human editor: consider moving this content off the events calendar entirely and into a general 'things to do in Xingping' experience page, since it functions as a bookable year-round activity rather than a dated event. Kept here for now with status dates_tbc and low confidence rather than removed unilaterally.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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sports adventure Yanpang Outdoor Camp, Longcun Village, Gaotian Town, 阳朔县

Yangshuo International Climbing Festival

阳朔攀岩节 · Yángshuò Pānyánjié

Date to be announced
Dates TBC
  • ⚠ '~500 participants from 30 nations' (previous site claim) is NOT confirmed. The Tier A source for the 2019 (12th) edition states '300余人' (300+ participants) with only China, France, Russia and Cambodia named (for the youth division). No source found supports 500/30 for any edition, treat as unverified marketing copy and do not restate without a fresh source.
  • ⚠ Location corrected: the 2024 (16th) edition was held at Yanpang Outdoor Camp, Longcun Village, Gaotian Town, not 'West Street' as the previous site implied (West Street likely hosts associated evening social events, but that specific link is not sourced here).
  • ⚠ Organized jointly by 桂林市体育局 (Guilin Sports Bureau) and 阳朔县人民政府 (Yangshuo County government); event is real, government-run, and has a strong Tier A/A-adjacent documentation history (2019, 2023, 2024 editions all found).
  • ⚠ Most recently confirmed dates: 2024 edition, 29 Nov-1 Dec (16th edition). A 2025 (17th) edition is mentioned in passing in one Tier B source but exact 2025 dates were not found, and no 2026 announcement exists yet, status is genuinely dates_tbc.
  • ⚠ duration_days (3) is based on the confirmed 2024 span; will need updating once 2026 dates are announced.

Last verified: 2026-08-03

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