Lishui Plum Blossom Season

Festival overview

On 21 February 2026 the 2026 Lishui Plum Blossom Season opened at Fujiabian, Honglan Subdistrict, under a slogan that plays on the Chinese words for plum, for beautiful and for Lishui and is rendered in English as "A Good Life with Plums, Meeting in Sweet Lishui" (Lishui District People's Government website, Honglan Subdistrict publicity office, 24 February 2026). The programme included a plum market selling strawberries, green plum wine and Honglan Yudai cakes, together with dough-figure modelling, sugar painting, a god-of-wealth procession, a roly-poly performer and a fireworks display; the ten-li plum grove was lit at night for plum viewing after dark.

The venue is Fujiabian, Honglan Subdistrict. The piece is a news release supplied by the subdistrict publicity office, not a published document; it gives neither the number of the edition nor the organisers, so this entry records the month in the held-month field and fills in neither the edition number nor the organisers.

Distinction from the China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival: that festival is organised by the Nanjing Municipal People's Government, was first held in 1996, and in 2024 was in its twenty-ninth edition, running from 19 February to 15 March 2024; it had Plum Blossom Mountain as its main venue and Xuanwu Lake Park and Fujiabian in Lishui as sub-venues (Nanjing Municipal People's Government website, 19 February 2024; Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism website, 19 February 2024). The Lishui Plum Blossom Season is the name of a district- and subdistrict-level event and is not the same name as the Lishui sub-venue of the festival; the two must not be used interchangeably.

Past editions

• 2024: as the main sub-venue of the China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival, the Lishui sub-venue took the theme of a good life with plums and meeting in sweet Lishui, staged night plum viewing with fireworks, ran the plum market and created a thousand plum moments (Nanjing Municipal People's Government website, 19 February 2024). This entry records the programme of that year's sub-venue only; the piece gives neither the edition number nor the organisers of the Lishui-level event.
• 2026: the season opened on 21 February. On the opening day more than seventy sales stalls were set up, about sixty thousand visitors entered the grounds, the peak number in the grounds at one time was eighteen thousand, and the surrounding guesthouses were fully booked until the sixth day of the first lunar month; the main strawberry varieties at Fujiabian were Hongyan, Xiangye and Chulian (Lishui District People's Government website, Honglan Subdistrict publicity office, 24 February 2026).
• The visitor and stall figures are the figures for the opening day of 2026 and must not be written as figures for the whole season or for all years.
• Other years: no year-by-year releases have been verified by this site, so none is added, and the edition number of this event is not worked out from the festival's twenty-ninth edition.

Practical information

• Venue: Fujiabian, Honglan Subdistrict.
• Month: in past years the season has been held in February and March; the exact dates shift from year to year, and the month and the programme change from year to year as well.
• How it is run: the grounds upgrade flower viewing on its own into one-stop rural tourism by combining plum viewing, picking, shopping and experiences (introduced by Zhang Xueqi, deputy general manager of the Fujiabian science and technology park group, in the 2026 report); this entry records that way of running it only, and information on the grounds and the businesses is to be taken from official notices.
• Information date: this entry was checked to September 2026; before travelling, readers should go to the official notices of the district culture and tourism department, Honglan Subdistrict and the grounds.