Yangzhou Opera is a traditional opera popular in Yangzhou and Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province as well as some places in Anhui province and Shanghai.

Yangzhou in Jiangsu province has a long history in Chinese paper cutting. Early in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), there was the custom of "paper-cutting heralding the spring".

​Yangzhou Tanci is a local folk art popular in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing and Lixiahe Area in North Jiangsu.

​Tourists who are willing to seek some leisure may go to Yangzhou City to experience "Yangzhou's Three Knives".

Lacquerware, objects decoratively covered with lacquer, is one of the intangible cultural heritages of Yangzhou city.