Mingguang city's characteristic culture includes shooting stars to catch the moon, mingguang folk songs, mingguang paper-cutting, money pole dancing, harvest gongs and drums, etc.
1. Shooting at the Moon: It is a unique folk dance in Jinli, Chaiquan Town, mingguang city. Going out with the Lantern Festival and performing in the field during the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival is a kind of folk Lantern Festival. It is a group dance characterized by "dancing meteor ball", which is mainly based on changing formation and endowed with certain theme connotation.
2. Mingguang folk songs: Jinli folk songs are rich and colorful. From the content, there are songs when plowing, when sowing, when transplanting, and when harvesting. There are Tian Ge in the field, folk songs on the mountain, fishing songs on the lake, and even the cowherd can sing happy pastoral songs.
3. Bright color paper-cutting: Paper-cutting, as a traditional folk art in China, is also called plane carving art. It adopts creative techniques such as cutting, engraving, filing, tearing and ironing, and forms a unique folk art style with exquisite paper language and artistic modeling that emphasizes outline lines.
4. Money pole dance: Money pole is a kind of movable equipment, with a small bamboo pole about one meter long and copper coins strung on both ends. Money pole dance is commonly known as "money pole". The performers beat their shoulders, back, waist and limbs rhythmically, or landed, or danced solo, or fought with others, or performed collectively.
5. Harvest gongs and drums: Music refers to the development of drums and rotation of China folk percussion music, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, giving full play to the expressive force of China's colorful percussion instruments, which has both national style and characteristics of the times.