Changsha May Day Trendy Guide is Here! Unlocking New Ways to Play in Star City

The May Day holiday is almost here! Why not head straight to Changsha this holiday and unlock new ways to play in Star City with one click! From lively theaters to natural suburbs, from trendy Chinese heritage to trendy landmarks, we'll give you N ways to explore. Quickly save this "Changsha May Day Trendy Guide" to help you have fun and easily unwind during the holiday~ ✅ "Seeking Changsha" - Seeking 3,000 Years of Changsha at the Changsha Museum ⏰May 1–May 5, 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00 Seeking Changsha Theater, Changsha Museum The stage play "Seeking Changsha" is an immersive Hunan culture feast that takes you through a thousand years of Changsha in 30 minutes of exquisite performances. The play integrates historical highlights such as the Bronze Age of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the culture of the State of Chu, the Changsha Kingdom of the Han Dynasty, and the Changsha Kiln of the Tang Dynasty. It is cleverly narrated in three chapters, connecting cultural images such as the Princess Yuyang, Changsha Kiln, and the Zhu Zhang Conference, vividly restoring the profound heritage of Hunan civilization. ✅ Jiangtian Muxue Performance ⏰May 1–May 5, 14:00, 16:00, 19:00, 20:30 Jiangtian Muxue Light and Shadow Theater, Orange Isle The performance uses the historical context of the Jiangtian Muxue scroll in Xiaoxiang's Eight Views as the narrative axis, and constructs a poetic field about Jiangtian Muxue through the artistic conception and context. At the same time, it breaks through the traditional proscenium stage and innovatively adopts the immersive viewing mode of "the scenery moves with the play", and uses sound, light, water, fog, and electricity as brushes to spread the narrative through five theatrical micro-theaters: "Prologue: Mountain Wall Projection", "Secret Exploration of the Front Yard", "Academy Debate", "Orange Isle Night Banquet", and "Yuefang Music". Starting from one object, one pavilion, one building, one river, and one snow, it creates a unique aesthetic imprint of Hunan culture. ✅ "Civilization is Here, Friendship has Lasted for Thousands of Years" Special Exhibition ⏰May 1–5, 9:00–16:30 Special Exhibition Hall, Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum This exhibition takes the archaeological achievements of the Chaoyang Lane construction site as its core, integrates the cultural relics of the core area of Changsha City in May 1st Square, and focuses on Jia Yi and the profound influence of his thoughts on Hunan culture. More than 300 precious cultural relics are exhibited, presenting a panoramic view of the city's evolution and cultural landscape over the past 3,000 years from five dimensions: the lives of ordinary people, the memories of the city, the aesthetics of life, spiritual sustenance, and playful entertainment, deeply decoding the cultural roots of the "livable" gene of this famous historical city. ✅ Tatsuya Miyanishi's Picture Book World - 40th Anniversary Exhibition ⏰May 1–October 31 Temporary Exhibition Hall, Longping Rice Museum The exhibition features more than 200 selected precious manuscripts and paintings, covering 57 picture book works by Tatsuya Miyanishi, and specially presents a picture book world full of love, kindness, humor, and strength. Starting from "Little Da's Dream", this exhibition takes the audience into the world of Tatsuya Miyanishi's picture books, where they will meet Da Ye, who is full of dreams, warmth, and optimism in different periods, and will also encounter those warm, humorous, and powerful stories. ✅ Changsha Flavor Intangible Cultural Heritage Market ⏰May 1–May 4, 9:30–16:30 Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum This Changsha Flavor Intangible Cultural Heritage Market takes "taste" as the guide, turning intangible cultural heritage that can be chewed, experienced, hummed, and played into new cultural and tourism consumption vitality that can be participated in and grown 🛒, allowing intangible cultural heritage to become a Changsha flavor that everyone can easily access, creating an intangible cultural heritage event with both a sense of life and cultural charm. ✅ "Nanguo Jiashu Praises Spring and Passes on Art" Changsha Inheritance and Practice Activities "Jusong" Intangible Heritage Experience ⏰May 1–May 4, 9:30–16:30 Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum With the 24 solar terms as the theme and the Qingming Guyu season as the warp, the poetic image of "Jusong" is expressed in the form of intangible cultural heritage, and integrated with representative intangible cultural heritage projects at all levels in Changsha to create a new intangible cultural heritage experience that can be touched, felt, and passed on. ✅ 2025 Flame Encounter: Fireworks Planet Fantasy Night ⏰May 2, 3 Liuyang Sky Theater This large-scale immersive fireworks show created for the May Day Golden Week will last for 1 hour. Through the narrative of the fireworks planet theme, five interstellar scenes are created, combined with dome projection, dynamic fireworks, and drone formation technology, interweaving to present a visual feast of mechanical gears and dynamic fireworks. ✅ Changsha Fantawild "Prosperous Tang Dynasty Fireworks Festival" ⏰May 1–May 5 Changsha Fantawild Oriental Heritage The Changsha Fantawild Prosperous Tang Dynasty Fireworks Festival is grandly staged, with colorful auspicious clouds and golden waterfalls gathering together, using ancient fireworks to redraw the prosperous Tang Dynasty sky! Tang Dynasty terracotta doll sisters, Tang Dynasty flower-wearing lads and other Chinese style NPCs make a stunning appearance, with prosperous Tang Dynasty weddings, interactive parades, and Tang style performances, with non-stop excitement all day long. ✅ "Rock Yin Mountain" Rural Rock Music ⏰May 1 Tianxi Lake, Yinshan Village, Jiangbei Town, Changsha County The Yinshan Rural Rock Music Festival is wonderful, and the event covers scenic spot fashion flash mobs, immersive lakeside parades, lawn concerts, and rural revitalization themed performances, bringing tourists a double enjoyment of sight and sound. There are also food markets, intangible cultural heritage displays, and lakeside check-in and other interactive experiences, allowing you to enjoy a holiday carnival interwoven with music, culture, and nature in the mountains and rivers! ✅ Guanghe Senye Natural Symbiosis Parent-Child Market ⏰May 1–May 4 Dashanchong Forest Park, Lukou Town, Changsha County There are rich play projects such as curtain plays, parent-child poetry, painting art creation, forest meditation, incense ceremony experience, organic food market, handmade craftsman exhibition, natural art gallery, tree hole emotions, elf concerts, free painting, plant DIY, etc., to experience a natural, leisure and pleasant trip 🌳. Some pictures are from the official account: Wenlv Changsha