Houwu Village has a deep cultural heritage and a profound cultural foundation for the masses. In the several festivals before 2009, the village's traditional folk cultural activities have been relatively complete excavation and restoration. In 2009 the 9th Folk Culture and Art Festival was opened on the Chongyang Festival. During the 4-day event, there were many contents, highlights and audiences. This year's festival showcased their village's exquisite eighteen butterflies, big-faced girls, eighteen Luohan, long flags, palace lanterns, eighteen mussel shells and other reserved programs. Besides, twelve mass cultural performance teams from all over the city came to cheer up the festival, including the fitness dance team of Tangxian Town, the old association performance team of Sifang Group, the line dance performance team of Hardware Plaza, the Luohan team of Yao Tong and Hengkeng, and the old mother performance team of Li Xi. Their participation not only enriches the activities of the festival, but also shows that the festival is more open to attract people to participate.
The most striking is the invitation program "Fenghua cloth dragon", the performance team to a red and blue two cloth dragon, dance dazzled the audience, dazzling, unique formation, dance, modeling, so that the people of Yongkang in the doorstep as a national intangible cultural heritage project to enjoy the wonderful.
Another highlight of the festival was the Wu Xiaoqing Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition. As a descendant of the Wu Clan and a cultural cadre of Qiancang Town, Wu Xiaoqing, after more than 20 years of pen plowing, her calligraphy and painting have become better and better, and she has become a style of her own. The exhibition attracted many painting and calligraphy fans, adding an artistic atmosphere to the festival.
The art festival also held the Wu Ancestral Shrine rededication celebration and Wu Ancestor Ceremony performance, the traditional folk hope congratulation performance, and invited the Zhejiang wu opera troupe to come to help, three days and four nights of the big play, make the art festival more lively and joyful.