Beat Leisure (得闲兽聚), which styles itself the "Yumcha Festival", is a furry convention in Foshan, China, held at the Foshan Marriott Hotel. Its organizer launched in October 2024, and it is one of a wave of young mainland-China hotel cons, running recurring seasonal editions with a full convention programme.
Programming and ticket tiers land closer to the date, and they land on the organizer's own Chinese channels: the yumcha-festival.com website, Bilibili, and Rednote. The 2026 edition, held that July, was themed 像素奇旅 (Pixel Adventure); dates for the next edition have not been announced yet. The organizer names each edition and does not keep it in one place, so check where the next one is as well as when: earlier editions ran at the Guangzhou Shangri-La in February 2025 and as an open street-block format later that year.
Beat Leisure gives the Pearl River Delta its own hotel-format weekend without the travel to a larger city. It sits in Foshan, immediately west of Guangzhou, so it is easy to reach from one of the busiest travel corridors in southern China. The name 得闲 is Cantonese for "having free time", and the con leans into that relaxed yumcha (tea-gathering) theme: a four-day, three-night residential format built around booths, signing artists, and stage programming. It is the second furry gathering to call Foshan home, run by a different organizer and hotel than the city's other event, so regulars have more than one reason to visit.
By air: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) is the main gateway and sits north of the venue; Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX) is another option to the south-east. Both connect to Foshan by high-speed rail and expressway.
By transit: Foshan and Guangzhou share a linked metro network. The venue is in Guicheng, in Foshan's Nanhai District beside Qiandeng Lake, which is served by the metro; from central Guangzhou, allow extra time for the cross-city ride or take a taxi.
By car: The hotel is on Haiba East Road (海八东路) in the Guicheng area of Nanhai District, close to the Qiandeng Lake financial district. Ride-hailing apps are the simplest option for visitors without a local vehicle.
Beat Leisure takes place at the Foshan Marriott Hotel, an international-brand hotel beside Qiandeng Lake, so the most convenient option is to book a room in the host hotel itself and stay where the programming happens. Rooms typically open through the convention's room block as well as the usual hotel-booking platforms.
Because Nanhai sits between Guangzhou and central Foshan, it is also a practical base for anyone combining the con with a wider Pearl River Delta trip.
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Beat Leisure ran its 像素奇旅 (Pixel Adventure) edition from 17 to 20 July 2026, a four-day, three-night stay at the Foshan Marriott Hotel in Nanhai District. Twenty-six exhibitor studios took booths, the pixel theme ran as a venue-wide card-collecting game across the Saturday and Sunday, and parts of the ticket allocation sold out before the doors opened. The organizer's wrap-up post released the weekend's group photo and called it a photo of unprecedented numbers of people, which is a claim about the photo and not a headcount, so nothing is inferred from it. No attendance figure, ticket tier, guest list or charity result was published anywhere, so none is recorded here.
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2027
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2026
Jul 17-20
Theme
像素奇旅 (Pixel Adventure)
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