As one of the four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, Zhang created the style of fishing songs and innovated the ci world. Guan Xiu's Sixteen Arhats is a treasure of ancient Chinese painting.

The Jinhua School represented by Lv Zuqian and the Yongkang School represented by Chen Liang in the Southern Song Dynasty are famous all over the country, and Jinhua is known as "Zou Lu in the south of the Yangtze River".

Zhu Danxi, a famous doctor in Yuan Dynasty, founded the theory of nourishing yin, which is famous at home and abroad. In the Ming Dynasty, Song Lian's writing style was simple, his literary theory was quite influential, and his works were widely circulated.

Li Yu, a dramatist in Qing Dynasty, is known as Oriental Shakespeare because of his profound attainments in drama theory. Modern Chen Wangdao, Shi Fuliang, Cao Juren, Feng Xuefeng, Shao Piaoping, Wu Han, Ai Qing, Huang and Shi Guangnan are all world-class celebrities.

1937, Hangzhou fell, and Jinhua once became the southeast anti-Japanese outpost and the political, economic and cultural center. Cultural celebrities from Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Yan 'an and Wuhan gathered in Jinhua. Committee of cpc zhejiang provincial committee Cultural Work Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Southeast Bureau Cultural Work Committee were established in Jinhua to lead the United front work in the cultural circles. At that time, there were 13 anti-Japanese cultural groups, 9 newspapers, more than 50 publications, 12 anti-Japanese theatrical troupes, 20 bookstores, Lin Mohan, Shi Ximin, He Jiahuai, Ju, Shan Sisi, Zhang Leping and so on. At that time, Jinhua was called "Southeast Anti-Japanese Cultural City".