SubscribeEnjoy Spring Festival in Shanghai and search for dragons
Date: Spring Festival
Location: Shanghai
To allow residents and visitors to better experience local customs, "Shanghai style" and celebrate the Chinese New Year together in the city, the Shanghai Administration of Culture and Tourism together with relevant districts and enterprises have launched over 200 holiday cultural and tourism activities.
Chinese New Year Gathering
Date: Feb 10-29
Location: Shanghai Happy Valley
Enjoy colorful events like the New Year's Eve fireworks show, dragon dance, lantern parade featuring auspicious creatures, Jiangzhou drum and music performances, and folk acrobatics.
Dreamlike Light Show
Date: Now - Feb 17
Address: Guanglu Building
From 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm every evening, Guanglu Building along Suzhou Creek will display light shows in a loop. Fireworks, cloud patterns and lanterns will illuminate the night sky.
The Dragon TV Spring Festival Gala 2024
Date: Feb 10, 7:30 pm
Platform: Dragon TV, BesTV
The Dragon TV New Year Spring Festival Gala will integrate traditions and trends and create a gala with a strong "Shanghai flavor".
Latest Performances
Original Broadway Musical The Sound of Music
Date: Feb 6-25
Location: Majestic Theatre
The Majestic Theatre will put on a performance of the Sound of Music during the holiday. The Sound of Music Spring Festival afternoon tea will also be held at the J Hotel Shanghai Centre.
Dance of Calligraphy in 353 AD
Date: Feb 14-15
Location: Shanghai Culture Square
As the first dance drama in China with calligraphy works as its subject matter, Dance of Calligraphy in 353 AD tells the historical journey of "The Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection", one of the most celebrated prose essays in Chinese history.
New Year Music Concert Chinese New Year (火红中国年)
Date: Feb 16
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
The concert will celebrate the Chinese New Year with traditional songs and contemporary new works in a wide range of styles.
Comedy Come On Money
Date: Feb 13-15
Location: FANCL Arts Center (Yihai Theater)
The performance tells the story of Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, who saw plummeting popularity after being exposed for "helping the rich but not the poor" and the events that followed.
Children's Music Drama Peter and the Wolf
Date: Feb 16
Location: Poly Shanghai City Theatre
This play is adapted from the famous symphonic fairytale Peter and the Wolf, composed by Sergei Prokofiev, for children.
British Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong
Date: Feb 14-25
Location: Jasmine Theatre
The comedy is about a group of accident-prone actors battling against all odds to make it through to the final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
Information about the Performances
Orchestral Music Concerts
2024 Shanghai Spring Festival Concert
Date: Feb 10
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Vienna Waltz Orchestra 2024 Spring Concert
Date: Feb 10-15
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
2024 Music Fans Shanghai Chinese New Year Symphony Concert
Date: Feb 10
Location: Shanghai Concert Hall
2024 Shanghai New Year Concert - Music Fans Classical
Date: Feb 11-15
Location: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Chinese Pop Classics Spring Festival Concert
Date: Feb 11
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
2024 Shanghai New Year Concert Vienna Waltz Orchestra Concert
Date: Feb 11-12
Location: Shanghai Concert Hall
"Voices of Spring" Night of Vienna Strauss - 2024 Chinese New Year's Concert
Date: Feb 12
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Shanlan Music Troupe - Chinese New Year Special Edition
Date: Feb 13
Location: Nine Trees Future Art Center
2024 Shanghai Children's Chinese New Year Concert
Date: Feb 13-14
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Radetzky March - 2024 Shangahi New Year Concert
Date: Feb 13
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Andrey Ivanovitch Piano Recital
Date: Feb 13
Location: Shanghai Concert Hall
Korean Drama Classic OST Concert
Date: Feb 14
Location: Great Theatre of China
Lala Land - Broadway Golden Melody Concert
Date: Feb 14
Location: Poly Shanghai City Theatre
The Symphony Concert of Velentine's Day
Date: Feb 14
Location: Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall
Jess Meider Jazz Romance Night
Date: Feb 14
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - 2024 Spring Festival Chamber Series
Date: Feb 15-16
Location: Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall
More Than Love - Romantic Classics Concert
Date: Feb 16
Location: Poly Shanghai City Theatre
The Sound of Spring - Chinese New Year's Family Concert
Date: Feb 16
Location: Shanghai Concert Hall
Martina Stock | Modern Harp with Loop and Light
Date: Feb 17
Location: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Mark Seibert's Live Concert
Date: Feb 17-18
Location: Shanghai Culture Square
Dramas & Musicals
Don Juan (musical)
Date: Now - Feb 8
Location: Shanghai Culture Square
The Devotion of Suspect X (musical)
Date: Now - Feb 18
Location: People's Stage
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (musical)
Date: Now - March 3
Location: New Bund 31 Performing Arts Centre
I LOVE YOU... (musical)
Date: Now - Feb 25
Location: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Pretty Woman in Magic City (drama)
Date: Now - Feb 8, Feb 13-17
Location: Shanghai Opera House
Veronica's Room (drama)
Date: Feb 8-25
Location: Common Stage
More Than Moonlight at the Window (comedy)
Date: Feb 12-25
Location: Yangtze River Theatre
Dances
Dance of Calligraphy in 353 AD (drama)
Date: Feb 14-15
Location: Shanghai Culture Square
Swan Lake (ballet)
Date: Feb 11-14
Location: Shanghai Grand Theatre
The Nutcracker (ballet)
Date: Feb 13
Location: Shanghai Grand Theatre
The Dream of Floating Life (ballet)
Date: Feb 14-15
Location: Shanghai International Dance Center
Family
Happy Circus 2024
Date: Feb 10-17
Location: Shanghai Circus World
ERA Time Travel 2
Date: Feb 10 - March 31
Location: Shanghai Circus World
Heroes of Ott Galaxy: The Fateful Match
Date: Feb 11-12
Location: FANCL Arts Center (Yihai Theatre)
Journey to the West: The Legend of the Great Sage (shadow puppets)
Date: Feb 13
Location: Nine Trees Future Art Center
Nine-Coloured Deer (shadow puppets)
Date: Feb 14-15
Location: Ciros Puppet Theatre
You're the Player II (interactive theatre)
Date: Feb 15
Location: Great Theatre of China
Children's Theatre
The Nian "Woohoo"
Date: Feb 16-17
Location: Malanhua Theatre, Children's Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute
Exhibitions
Stars over China: The Ancient Shu Civilization of Sanxingdui and Jinsha
Date: Now - May 20
Location: Shanghai Museum East
The exhibition showcases an impressive collection of 363 pieces and sets of precious cultural relics sourced from China's renowned Sanxingdui Ruins, a remarkable one-third of which are said to be the country's most recent archaeological discoveries.
Longing for Spring: A Celebration of the Year of the Dragon
Date: Open since Jan 26
Location: Shanghai Museum (Museum Hall, People's Square Venue)
The exhibition displays a total of eight pieces of dragon artworks of different periods and images, telling the legendary fragments of the formation and development of the Chinese dragon.
2024 Shanghai Chinese Academy of Paintings Spring Exhibition
Date: Feb 10 - March 3
Location: Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy Museum
The old, middle-aged and young painters of Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting, with their ardent wishes for the New Year and the beautiful vision of the new era, elaborately presented a splendid feast of paintings for the general audience.
Soaring Dragons and Dancing Phoenixes - Calligraphy Exhibition
Date: Now - March 3
Location: Pudong History Museum
The exhibition displays more than 50 calligraphy works containing the word "dragon" written by celebrities, as well as jade, porcelain, embroidery and other exhibits with the theme of dragons and phoenixes.
Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water - Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo
Date: Now - April 7 (Closed on Feb 10-12)
Location: Long Museum (West Bund)
The exhibition displays 19 groups of works, including Ren Bonian's "Birthday Celebration of the Immortals"（《群仙祝寿图》）, Wu Changshuo's "Portrait of Fouweng"（《缶翁肖像图轴》）, which is a collaboration between Ren Yi and Wang Yiting, and Wu Changshuo's "Letters to Ren Bonian"（《致任伯年信札》).
The Reflective Memories - Fiber Art Exhibition
Date: Now - March 31
Location: Shanghai World Expo Museum
Through 36 pieces/sets of fiber installation artworks by renowned artists, five themes and six chic display spaces, the exhibition interprets the link between fiber art and nature, and guides people to philosophical thinking about the past and the future.
Perennial Family Reunion - Exploring traditional Chinese New Year paintings
Date: Now - end of March
Location: Shanghai Library
Given that it's a common practice to visit friends and relatives during the Chinese New Year, the exhibition showcases the historical collection of traditional Chinese New Year paintings.
Source: "shanghaitourism" WeChat account
