The traditional folk arts of Huangdao District are rich and colorful. Dragon lanterns, lion dances, dry boats, stilts, donkeys, waist drums, rice-planting songs, and big-headed dolls have a long history and have been passed down to the present day. Mao cavity, Liu cavity, Beijing opera is still prevalent. Suona, erhu, flute, gongs and drums, sheng instrumental music is still popular. Commentary, drum lyrics, fast boards, folk songs are still sung from time to time.
Huangdao folk paper-cutting activities in the territory of more than three hundred years of history, centered on the town of Xinan, throughout the district's four townships. Huangdao paper-cutting is a typical representative of the northern paper-cutting art, which is characterized by boldness and roughness, simplicity and beauty, and well-proportioned composition. It uses scissors as a tool, and both yin and yang patterns are used, with yang lines neat and meticulous, yin lines bold and strong, bold and concise structure. The paper-cutting composition is bright and breezy, with a strong sense of life, and is very lifelike. Huangdao folk paper-cutting has participated in many art exhibitions in Shandong Province and Qingdao City and won many awards. In the international cultural exchanges, it has also been highly praised by international friends.