Chaling is a place with a long history and rich cultural customs. The characteristic culture of Chaling includes folk culture, food culture and festival customs. In terms of folk culture, Chaling has unique performance forms such as the Yunyang Mountain Nanyue Palace Temple Fair, Chaling Hunan Opera, and Hakka Fire Dragon. In terms of food culture, Chaling people love to eat pickled garlic, bean curd, bacon, spicy sauce, pickled fish and other delicacies. In terms of festival customs, eating chicken dumplings and hanging "spring lanterns" on the Lantern Festival, eating mugwort eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival, taking mugwort baths, and sprinkling mugwort leaves in the room are all traditional customs in Chaling.