Tianjin dialect is one of the northern dialects, popular in Tianjin and its surrounding areas, referring to the dialect spoken by the people in the triangular "Tianjin Dialect Island" with the tip facing south and the bottom facing north, centered on the old city of Tianjin.

Jin Cuisine is a local cuisine with the flavor of Tianjin. After hundreds of years of development, it has been gradually perfected into a complete system covering Han Chinese cuisine, Halal cuisine, vegetarian cuisine, local specialties of the hometown and folk snacks.

Tianjin is a place where many forms of Chinese opera originated, flourished and developed. Among them, Tianjin time tune, Tianjin fast board, Jingdong drum, Jingyun drum, Tiepian drum, fast board book and other forms of music and art were formed in Tianjin; and Beijing opera, Hebei opera, comedy, opera, commentary, single-stringed, plum blossom drums, Xihe drums and other forms of music and art flourished and developed in Tianjin. Comedy and Peking Opera are the most important representatives of Tianjin's musical arts.

Tianjin's comedy began in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, in the old city of Tianjin, there began to be two "bright land" for artists to perform. Famous Tianjin comedians include Ma Sanli, Hou Baolin, Chang Baokun, Gao Yingpei, Ma Ji, Feng Gong, Niu Qun, Guo Degang and Yu Qian.

Drama is the most prominent representative of the collision and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures in Tianjin. As early as 1901, the educator Zhang Boring began to advocate theater, and his brother Zhang Pengchun was the first early theater activist and director to go abroad to study modern theater arts and introduce Western realistic drama to China. 1906, Li Shutong and his classmate, Zeng Xiaogu, founded an amateur theater group, the Chunliu Society, in Tianjin, and premiered The Lady of the Camellias, which was the first Chinese drama to be produced. The Lady of the Camellias", the first Chinese drama. The play "Thunderstorm" written by Cao Yu, a playwright from Tianjin, was set in Tianjin during the Republican period. Other famous playwrights from Tianjin include Jiao Juyin, Yu Zhi, Lin Zhaohua and Xie Tim.

In the 1930s, several world-class classical musicians, including violinists Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler and pianist Rachmaninoff, came to Tianjin to perform. Li Shutong was a pioneer in spreading Western music to China, and his song "Farewell Song" was widely sung in the early years of the Republic of China as a school song taught in new-style schools, and has become a classic in Chinese music history.

Tianjin literature is a collection of "Tianjin flavor literature" and "Wei school literature", which has intermittently presented the characteristics of Tianjin regional culture at a certain historical stage, such as the emergence of "Tianjin flavor novels". At a certain stage in history, the regional cultural characteristics of Tianjin had been intermittently presented, such as the emergence of "Tianjin-style novels", but placed in a longer historical perspective, the regionality and inheritance of "Tianjin literature" were not so obvious. ***In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the literary scene in Tianjin was dominated by writers, poets and dramatists from the liberated areas, who themselves became the main body of the literary scene in Tianjin, such as Sun Li's The First Record of the Storm and the Wind and the Small Collection of the Tianjin Municipal Government, both of which were born in this period. Tianjin writer Feng Jicai, a representative figure of Tianjin literature, produced numerous novels and essays, and many of his articles, such as "Picking the Mountain Worker" and "Bird of Pearls," were selected for inclusion in textbooks.

Tianjin painting has a long history, and during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, Tianjin painting was an important territory for the orthodox style of painting. In the early days of Tianjin calligraphy, there were four great masters, Hua Shikui, Meng Guanghui, Yan Xiu and Zhao Yuanli. The Eight Great Masters of Tianjin Calligraphy and Painting were Wang Xuezhong, Sun Qifeng, Sun Kegzang, Wang Songyu, Xiao Lang, Aisin Gioro Pu Zuo, Zhao Songtao, and Mu Zhongqin, while the calligraphy and painting skills of Hongyi Master Li Shutong were equally superb. Contemporary painters and calligraphers include He Jiaying, Huo Chunyang and Wu Yuyang.

Tianjin's four major folk arts are: clay figure Zhang colored sculpture, Yang Liuqing New Year's paintings, Wei Ji kites and engraved brick Liu.