The World Poetry Dance Music and Visual Arts Salon was held in Liangzhu of Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, on Saturday.

More than 20 artists and cultural scholars from various countries, such as Spain, Brazil, Nigeria, New Zealand, and Singapore, attended the salon.

The salon, themed "Shared Beauty, Shared Civilization," was organized in the form of yaji, or "elegant gathering", which was a tradition among intellectuals, artists and people of higher social class in ancient China. They would gather to share their thoughts, demonstrate individual artistic or cultural attainments, and collaborate to create prose, poems, calligraphy, and paintings.

Featuring performances, panel discussions, exhibitions of co-created works, the event highlighted art as humanity's shared pursuit of beauty and its ability to transcend differences and foster empathy and mutual understanding.

"To speak of shared beauty is to recognize that beauty is not merely aesthetic—it is relational. It is found in the meeting point between cultures, in the harmony between voices, in the respect between traditions," Kelvin Jacob, chief cultural officer of Grenada's Ministry of Tourism, Creative Economy and Culture, said in a speech. "Shared civilization does not erase difference, it celebrates it. It does not homogenize—it harmonizes."

"Poetry, dance, music, and visual art are the original bridges between cultures. They teach us to see through another's eyes. They allow us to feel what statistics cannot express. They remind us that before we are citizens of nations, we are citizens of the imagination," he added.

Zhang Weiguo, director of the Network of International Culturalink Entities, the said in his speech that his organization invited artists from various countries to gather in Liangzhu, a testament to the 5000-year-old Chinese civilization, was for promoting two-way exchanges and co-creation of performances, and fostering a cultural resonance across borders.