Over 100 brands gather at Meixi Lake; 8.0 Changsha Urban Coffee Festival to open October 1

Changsha Evening News / Palm Changsha reported on September 30 (all-media reporter Wang Jiayi): For the National Day holiday, if you want a place in Changsha where you can drink coffee, browse a market, see exhibitions and do crafts, you can add Meixi Lake to your itinerary. From October 1 to 4, the 8.0 Changsha Urban Coffee Festival will be held at the Plaza 1 entrance of Changsha Jinmao Lanxiu City and the Meixi Lake Art Museum. Coffee brands, baristas and cultural-creative brands from multiple cities across the country will gather, bringing citizens and visitors a National Day urban market that blends coffee, art, socializing and a green lifestyle.

Now in its eighth year, the Changsha Urban Coffee Festival takes “8, also ∞ (infinity)” as its core concept this year, extending the festival from a mere beverage market further into urban-culture and public-life scenes.

What coffee lovers care about most is still “what can we drink this time.” It is understood that this year’s festival gathers over 100 curated brands from 30 cities nationwide — covering Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi’an, Nanjing, Xiamen and more, with about 50% of the brands entering or debuting in Changsha for the first time. The venue will also bring together multiple coffee-competition champions, offering competition-grade pour-over, creative signatures and new-season self-roasted beans.

Compared with ordinary coffee markets, this year’s “champion coffee” becomes a major highlight. For example, Zhang Lewen, owner of Changsha’s Miding Coffee, won the 2025 China Coffee Brewing Championship national overall title; the OPUS CAFE team from Zhenjiang will bring competition-grade pour-over, creative signatures and self-roasted beans. The festival site becomes a window for ordinary consumers to feel professional brewing craftsmanship up close.

For visitors whose main purpose is not “drinking coffee,” there is still plenty to browse. The “Extraordinary Art” micro-market led by the Meixi Lake Art Museum will gather art and handmade brands — museum cultural-creative products, immersive art exhibitions, accessory-making, ceramics, trendy toys, apparel and Changsha-local illustration IPs — connecting the coffee market with art consumption and cultural-creative experiences.

Coffee-themed art workshops will also be set up simultaneously at the festival site and inside the art museum. Experience items such as coffee-cup painting DIY, hand-knitted coasters, coffee-themed bead-art, coffee-pulp paintings and coffee-bean clay calendars extend the market from “browsing and drinking” to “hands-on making.”

The site also plans a “coffee-grounds regeneration workshop” where citizens can join in making coffee-ground sachets; idle cups can be brought to the festival for exchange or charity sale, with the proceeds going to environmental public-welfare projects.

This National Day, if you’d rather not rush between popular scenic spots, why not come to Meixi Lake. Browse a market, see an exhibition and make a handcraft amid the coffee aroma, and watch the autumn sun slowly set — this too can be a way to open the Changsha holiday.

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