At the end of 2020, the Sugar-Fire Art and Culture Festival (Tang Huo Yi Wen Ji) kicked off in Yangshuo county of Guilin city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, diversifying the art landscape of the area famed for its tourism and natural landscape. The festival brought together many traditional as well as modern artists.

The festival is based in Yangshuo Sugar House, a hotel transformed from the local sugar factory in 2017, which combines the old factory building's historical traces and the coziness of modern design.

Yang Xiaodong, founder of Yangshuo Sugar House, believes that culture and art can bring life and character to Yangshuo and hopes to make the county more dynamic. After last year's epidemic outbreak, many contemporary art activities are planned to activate local people's daily life and give tourists more choices when visiting Yangshuo.

In this year's Sugar-Fire Art and Culture Festival, architect Guo Liaohui created the theme installation work "Fire Pit into the Wood (Ru Mu Huo Tang)", reflecting the long history of the culture of fire pit throughout the southwest minority villages. On the New Year's Eve, the work was ignited to bid farewell to 2020 and pray for the coming New Year. Photographer Feng Jianguo, architect Guo Liaohui, new-media artist Liu Jiayu and folk musician Chen Fei also brought their works to the stage.

Dai Jinhua, professor of Chinese literature and culture at Peking University, said after visiting the Yangshuo Sugar House that with the landscape and architecture, various art and cultural activities can enrich local people's lives and pass on history and love from generation to generation.