Handan has a long history and a long culture. Handan is an ancient city with a history of more than 3,000 years. It is found in historical records in the early Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, it was the capital of Zhao State, one of the Seven Heroes. As early as 7,300 years ago, the Cishan Culture of the early Neolithic Age was born here. The ancestors of Cishan established their homes in this area and created the world-famous "Cishan Culture". Handan flourished in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties and flourished in the Warring States and Qin and Han dynasties. It first belonged to Wei and then returned to Zhao. During the Warring States Period, it was the capital of Zhao State. It dominated the Central Plains and was one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. It integrates the agricultural culture of the Central Plains and the nomadic culture of the grasslands, and builds the ideological tone of Zhao culture's boldness, ruggedness, and generous elegance. At the end of the Han Dynasty, after Cao Cao captured Yecheng, he built the city and expanded its territory, making it the military and political center of the north. Six dynasties, including Zhao, Ran Wei, Qian Yan, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, successively established their capitals here. During the Tang Dynasty, Daming Prefecture in Handan gradually rose to become "an important town in Hebei Province" and "the first of the eight prefectures in Jifu". In the Song Dynasty, it was promoted to the companion capital of Kaifeng, Kyoto. It thus became the central city in the area north of the Yellow River. With the opening of the Beijing-Hankow Railway, Handan was revived again, returning the regional center of southern Hebei to Handan City. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1949, Handan truly began to revitalize and became an emerging industrial city.

The rich historical and cultural heritage has left precious spiritual wealth for the people of Handan and laid the foundation for the Renaissance in Handan. After liberation, while restoring and developing economic construction, the party government also attached great importance to the excavation and research of historical culture, and on this basis did a lot of work to develop a new socialist culture. Especially after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Handan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of the Communist Party of China listed strengthening cultural construction as an important component of the entire city's construction and made the "Decision on Revitalizing Handan City's Cultural Undertakings." Effective measures have been taken to bring Handan's cultural undertakings into a gratifying situation where hundreds of flowers are blooming and full of vitality.