Quanzhou is one of the twenty-four famous historic cultural cities firstly approved by the State Department .The assembled literature, the long-term mixture of Sino-Western civilizations, all these have brought up numerous brilliant scholars and writers, and have left over a large sum of cultural relics and precious Sino-foreign historic treasure, taking the Southern Opera, the Southern Music and Southern Shaoling Wushu as examples. Twelve scenic spots in the city are of the national protective cultural relics, thirty-seven of the provincial relics, and more than two hundred of the local ones. Quanzhou Liyuan Opera, Puppet Show, Gaojia Opera and Dacheng Opera have inherited the style of simplicity and elegance among which the Southern Music ---- admired as "the Lively Fossil of Chinese Court Music" ---- is regarded by the overseas Chinese as the dearest folk music. The local products like the porcelain of Dehua, the stoneware of Huian, the wooden puppet heads of Quanzhou, the Wulong Tea of Anxi and the vinegar of Yongchun are all well-known and well sold abroad.