The city has historically been known in China for its wushu (martial arts) and acrobatics. Cangzhou is also famed for its historic thousand-year-old 40-ton lion sculpture.

The sculpture is reportedly the largest cast-iron sculpture in the world, cast in 953 in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The famed lion has even given its name to a locally-brewed beer and is a symbol of the city.

Cangzhou is home to a traditional Chinese form of musical performing arts, Kuaiban Dagu.

The city’s Hui residents have seven mosques. One of them, the West Mosque, has collected at its museum one of Chinas’s best collections of Islamic manuscripts and artefacts.

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