Xinghua traditional culture can be traced back to Chu-Han culture. Xinghua belongs to Jianghuai dialect area. In the early Ming Dynasty, a large number of Suzhou immigrants moved in, so Xinghua dialect also included Wu dialect. Xinghua cuisine belongs to "Weiyang cuisine" and is good at stewing, stewing, steaming, roasting and frying. Its specialties include fried mullet fillet, drunken crab, stewed chicken, vinegar-roasted mandarin fish, crab yellow steamed stuffed bun, Shagou spring rolls, Shagou fish balls, preserved pine eggs, Xinghua smoked roast, Dai Nan braised tripe and Anfeng pickled mustard tuber. There was Kunqu Opera Association in Xinghua in Ming Dynasty. From the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, Hui Opera and Peking Opera societies flourished. 1946, the peasant troupe was established in the liberated areas. After 1949, more than 20 class clubs have been established. 1955, Xinghua has 8 troupes registered. Traditional operas include Beijing Opera, Yang Opera, Beijing Opera and Yue Opera. There are also puppet shows, acrobatics, Quyi and other performing groups. After the merger and adjustment, 1987 resumed Xinghua Huai Opera Troupe.

Xinghua has gradually formed the characteristic culture of water town in the long-term historical process, and its intangible cultural heritage is very rich. In the early days of liberation, Maoshan's chant was sung in Zhongnanhai, and Hu Lin's nursery rhyme "Song Shang Duan" was selected as a music textbook by art colleges. Folk artists have been handed down from generation to generation, and British folk arts such as kneading dough, bamboo mud boat art and wheat straw weaving are enduring for a long time. Traditional cultural customs such as temple fairs have been endowed with new connotations with the changes of the times, and traditional cultural programs such as lake boat, stilts, lotus fragrance and dragon dance have been continuously introduced.