The custom of Buddha's birthday on the eighth day of April in Zhongshan

The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the Zhongshan Folk Culture Festival, and many towns and villages will hold large-scale folk culture activities on that day for citizens to participate in. The Municipal Intangible Heritage Protection Center and other units held the "Drunken Dragon Culture Festival in Zhongshan on the eighth day of April" in the Cultural Square. It is understood that the drunken dragon dance in Zhongshan is a national intangible cultural heritage list project, which originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. In the dance, the dragon dancer is slightly awake.

April 8 of the lunar calendar coincides with the opening of the Guangdong (Zhongshan) Cultural Consumption Festival. The Provincial Department of Culture has organized nearly 50 national or provincial traditional arts, traditional skills and traditional medicines, such as colored porcelain firing skills, Foshan paper-cutting, Shiwan pottery sculpture skills and Yangjiang kites.

Zhongshan people love their country and their hometown. They are hardworking, honest, enterprising, innovative, flexible, pragmatic and not so conservative. People are peaceful and polite, be kind to others, unite and help each other, and advocate justice. In 1980s, Zhongshan Municipal People's Government formulated "unity, patriotism, truth-seeking and innovation" as the spirit of Zhongshan people.