16th Fujian Music and Dance Festival Opens in Fuzhou

Key points

• The 16th Fujian Music and Dance Festival opened in Fuzhou on September 17, 2026 and will run through October 9.
• The 92 works presented were selected from more than 300 entries, with an online vote for "audience favorite works" opened in parallel.
• This edition adds a drama and folk-art category and optimizes award settings; Min-style genres such as Nanyin, Jinge and kuaiban appear on the festival stage at scale for the first time.
• The event deepens the "Weekend Opera Encounter" brand and cultivates "new mass art," turning ordinary people from audience members into creators.
• The Fujian Music and Dance Festival has been held 15 consecutive times since its founding in 1978 and is Fujian's highest-level and most influential provincial brand arts event in mass culture.
• The festival is co-hosted by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Fujian Provincial Department of Education, the Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Fujian Provincial Federation of Trade Unions.