Lincang District culture in the early years of the establishment of the Tusi Buddhist culture is most prevalent, after the conversion of the Han culture into a large number of imported, the cultural fusion of various ethnic groups, to the early Republic of China, there is a new culture emerged.
Lincang cultural undertakings since the Republic of China began to flourish, the county has a library, Dian opera playmate class and school drama troupe performances, the countryside has a song and dance and mountain song duet. In the east of the city to build cover the literati meeting place "yifeng building", then there is a library, public education museum, Peng Gui calyx, Qiu Yuan Ming and other organizations alarm bells society, published "alarm bells" quarterly, the provincial student association in Kunming published publication "new maingnin".
In 1949, the People's Self-Defense Forces founded the People's Newspaper.
Central *** after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, after 2000, urban and rural material and cultural life has undergone radical changes, whenever major festivals and large-scale celebrations, urban and rural areas are generally organized cultural performances, playing lion and dragon lanterns, garden dances and so on. District set up within the Lincang City Mass Art Museum, libraries, ethnic art troupes, theaters, radio and television stations, district libraries, district cultural centers, poetry clubs, old cadres, calligraphy and painting associations and other cultural units and cultural groups, as well as rural communities, the activities of the Association of the elderly is very active. Local Records Office has compiled and published "Lincang County Records", "Lincang County Yearbook", "Linxiang District Yearbook" and other departmental records, professional records dozens of. Prosperous literary and artistic creation, Yunnan opera, local ethnic drama, as well as traditional poetry, calligraphy and painting works continue to win prizes in China's Yunnan Provincial Competition, the emergence of a number of strength of the literary and artistic creation team. There are publications "Lincang Literature and Art", "Nanting River", "Lincang Poetry", "Fangguo" and so on, editing and publishing hundreds of literary books and magazines. In particular, Lincang District Committee Propaganda Department sponsored a comprehensive publication "Nanting River", since the 2006 revision, from the earliest intermittent publication, to the quarterly issue, and then to the bimonthly publication and distribution of the leap.