Of current interest, there have recently appeared a series of the shallow-water papers in Mod. Phys. Lett. B. Illuminated by those papers and to make the story more complete, for the nonlinear long waves in the shallow water, this paper is scheduled to investigate a (2+1)-dimensional generalized Broer-Kaup system. As for the wave height and wave horizontal velocity, we employ symbolic computation, with the view of constructing out two groups of the similarity reductions.