Heilongjiang is a frontier province, but also a province of immigrants. Han Chinese accounts for more than 90% of the total population. Although the population of ethnic minorities is scarce, but there are much more races, mainly including 10 native ethnic minorities, which are Manchu, Hui, Korean, Mongolian, Daur, Oroqen, Ewenki, Kirgiz, nationality, Xibe. The historical change and folk customs of the native people are in the majority with support of the inhabited community. Among them, the Manzu, Mongolian, olunchun, owenk, and daur nationality have rich mythological inheritance. Hezhen, Oroqen and Daur has long been spreading long raps of which the themes are about heros, such as the " Iraq maria Campbell”of the Hezhe, the"shanghai-jiading-liuhe" of the Oroqen and " uriah khin"of the Daur. All these epic raps are national cultural treasure of Heilongjiang.

In modern times, Heilongjiang, the multi-ethnic border province, has gradually formed a frontier nation, which is involved with the characteristics of both Western and Chinese civilization. Since immigration after the early Qing Dynasty's "Exiles" and "Xing land", the Chinese tradition, customs and folk customs inside the area are combined with the native culture of Heilongjiang. In the Early 20th century, Heilongjiang, especially Harbin, Heihe, and Suifenhe Port became international business centers. in the areas of architecture, religion, culture, education, health and other aspects, Russia, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, France and many other countries in Eastern and Western, all of which are embodied with different characteristics of different ethnic culture, exchange their culture with Heilongjiang , which become an important part in modern civilization along Heilongjiang River.

Heilongjiang Province is rich in non-material cultural heritage resources, and some have entered into the literary and artistic creations in various categories, resulting in a large number of excellent works, and some have entered into the ranks of tourism and cultural industries, creating social and economic benefits. Heilongjiang Provincial Government has published the 1st batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage, which list a total of 57. Among them, ★ represents the national intangible cultural heritage, with a total of 9.