Liandu district in Lishui holds an activity in Shanghai on Aug 17 to preview its 2020 Guyan Huaxiang Art Festival. [Photo/lsnews.com.cn]

Liandu district in Lishui, Zhejiang province, held an activity in Shanghai on Aug 17 to preview its 2020 Guyan Huaxiang Art Festival which will run from Aug 28 to 30, local media reported.

Guyan Huaxiang, as a cradle of the Lishui Barbizon school, a local school of painting based on the Barbizon school in France, inspires many painters and is a typical example of driving local development through culture.

The festival, which has been held for five years, has two parts – a painting conference and a music festival.

This year, more than 100 domestic and foreign first-class experts, scholars and artists from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and other art colleges and universities, as well as top experts in the industry such as those from the Chinese Oil Painting Society and the Chinese Artists Association are invited to the festival.

For the music festival, several famous singers and bands in China have confirmed their attendance.

The festival has become the most popular and influential art festival in southwest Zhejiang every summer, attracting artists, music lovers and tourists from home and abroad.