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Lanterns, also known as "colored lanterns" and "lanterns", are the cultural products of the traditional Chinese agricultural era, with both life functions and artistic characteristics. Lantern is an important entertainment culture of Han nationality for thousands of years. It rewards God and entertains people. It not only has the function of "Nuo opera", but also has the value of entertaining the public. It is a treasure of Han folk culture. Lantern Festival originated from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who set up an altar in the palace on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to worship the most distinguished Taiyi God at that time. It is held all night, and lights must be lit all night. This is the beginning of the Lantern Festival. After Buddhism was introduced to China from India, due to the combination of Taoist immortal skills and the piety of burning lanterns to worship Buddha, on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, urban and rural areas were brightly lit, and gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns, forming a unique custom of combining Chinese and Western. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. At this time, all kinds of lanterns are hung on the street with colorful colors. Most of Fang Sheng's lanterns are themed with birds, fish, insects and flowers on the pavilion. A colored lantern stamp is made of dyed paper decorated with colored strips.

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Yuanxiao originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and spread among the people in the Song Dynasty. The production of lanterns in the past dynasties in China was very particular and varied. For example, Tang Yin, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, said in a poem: "Light without moon is not spring. Spring comes to people's hearts, and the lights burn like silver in the next month. The streets are full of women dressed in pearls and green. They are singing and playing games with the gods. How can we get rid of this good time until Fang Zun smiles? "

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Legend of sui dynasty

During the reign of Yang Di in Sui Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was full of fun, and lanterns were lit all night, which gradually developed into an important activity of the Lantern Festival. Lantern festival lantern

Because the society in the Tang Dynasty was peaceful and prosperous, lanterns were more brilliant and the scale of activities was quite large. The crowds watching the lights were crowded, from princes and nobles to hawkers and pawns, all went out to enjoy the lights. During Xuanzong period, the Western Han Dynasty relaxed the prohibition system. Chang 'an, the capital of Beijing, even canceled the three-night curfew before and after the Lantern Festival, and expanded the implementation of "night release" to facilitate people to enjoy the lanterns. After the Tang Dynasty, lanterns became an important symbol of the Lantern Festival. Although the national strength of the Song Dynasty was weak, this culture was vigorously promoted by the royal family, making the Song Dynasty another important historical stage in the development of lanterns. In Ming and Qing dynasties, the lantern viewing craze continued unabated, and there was even a lantern market in the square, selling lanterns of various styles to compete for beauty. China people have a history of more than 2,000 years of setting off Kongming lanterns on the Lantern Festival. There are many kinds and styles of lanterns all over the country, which are very popular. Taiwan Province provincial lanterns, commonly known as "drum lanterns", are named after their early appearance as gongs and drums. Popular types are lanterns, dice lanterns, round lanterns and knife lanterns. Because the Minnan dialect "Deng" and "Ding" are homonyms, it is generally considered that it is a good omen for wealthy people to carry lanterns and make lanterns. In the custom of Taiwan Province Province, women shuttle under the lights during the Lantern Festival and pray for a son (male) and a child in the coming year; In the Hakka village of Taozhu Temple in northern Taiwan Province Province, people hang lanterns in the temple from the 11th day of the first lunar month, which is called "lighting". The homophonic "Shi Ding" is one of the ceremonies for new male students to join the clan, which has far-reaching influence.

Myths and legends

Legend has it that a long time ago, a god bird got lost and landed on the earth, but was accidentally shot by an unsuspecting hunter. Emperor Tiandi was very angry when he learned that, so he ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the world on the fifteenth day of the first month and burn all mankind to death. The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven was kind-hearted, and could not bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life to tell the people the news. When people heard the news, they were like a thunderbolt overhead, and they were so scared that they didn't know what to do. After a long time, an old man came up with an idea. He said: "Every month, on14th,15th and16th, every household hangs red lanterns, sets off firecrackers and sets off fireworks at home. In this way, the emperor will think that people have been burned to death. " Everyone nodded and said yes, and they were ready to go separately. On the fifteenth night of the first month, the mountain soldiers looked down and found that there was red light in the world, thinking it was the flame of a big fire, and told the Emperor not to set fire to the ground. People thus saved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day.

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Lanterns are usually divided into chandeliers, seat lamps, wall lamps and lanterns. It is a comprehensive handicraft with bamboo, silk, pearl, Yu Pei, silk spike, feather, shell and other materials as raw materials, which are colored, pasted, woven, embroidered and carved, and decorated with paper-cutting, painting, calligraphy and poetry. It is also a traditional folk handicraft in China. Festival lanterns (displayed on the Lantern Festival)

Local opera lanterns. In the mid-Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, due to the development of commerce in Kunming, provincial guilds and trade guilds were established one after another, and popular opera tunes and troupes appeared. In order to adapt to the local language customs, and through the processing and transformation of contemporary art, the Ming and Qing ditties and folk songs were gradually combined to form Kunming Lantern. The early performance is the combination of social fire and social fire. The fire will be organized by the Lantern Festival and held during the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals. Before the performance, there will be a ceremony to greet the lantern gods, and the stewards will send lanterns everywhere. The performance team is led by headlamps with the words "Tai Ping Deng" and lanterns with the words "Good weather" and "Peace for the country and the people", followed by Shandu and Wu Wen Band, Lion Lantern Dragon Team, Wushu Acrobatic Troupe, stilts, dry boats, running donkeys, yangko, seedling drum, overlord whip and colorful characters or snipes in the play. This kind of "greeting lamp" is performed while walking, and it is called "crossing the street lamp". Later, it developed into a performance in the village street square, which was called "dustpan lamp". The programs include local lantern dramas such as Early in the Morning, Four Taurus and Backward Paddle, as well as transplant dramas such as In-laws in Urban and Rural Areas, Blind People Watching Lights, Fishing and Divorce in Zhu Maichen. After sorting out, more than 200 traditional tunes/kloc-0 have been excavated, which generally include three forms: dance, opera and short story drama with simple plot. With the progress of the times, the repertoire is constantly innovating. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a peasant salvation lantern troupe was established, and new plays such as Zhang Xiaoer Joining the Army and Shinjiro Visiting Mother were performed. Nowadays, the new drama interspersed with traditional plays has become a popular local traditional drama.

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China Lantern is a comprehensive art made of various technologies, crafts, decorative techniques and materials. There are many kinds of lanterns, such as dragon lanterns, palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, flower blue lanterns, dragon and phoenix lanterns, corner lanterns, tree lanterns, fireworks lanterns and mushroom lanterns, with round, square, cylindrical and polygonal shapes. Dragon Lantern, also known as "Dragon Dance", is a folk dance form of light in China, which is popular in many places in China. There is a faucet in front of the dragon lantern. The number of joints in the middle of the body varies, but it is generally singular. There is a stick under each joint for support. Each node of candles is called "Dragon Lantern", and those who don't light candles are called "Bulong". When dancing, one person plays the dragon with colored beads and the faucet rotates with the beads. Many other people each hold an accompaniment, tilting up and down, turning left and right, and cooperating with gongs and drums, which is very spectacular. Festival lanterns (displayed on the Lantern Festival)

Palace lantern is a world-famous special handcrafted lantern art in China. Palace lanterns are mostly made and used by palaces and government officials, so they have this name. The earliest palace lantern in existence is the Ming Dynasty palace lantern collected by the Palace Museum. The production of palace lanterns is very complicated, mainly with carved wood, bamboo and bronze as the skeleton, and then inlaid with tulle, glass or horn pieces, on which various auspicious and festive themes such as landscapes, flowers and birds, fish and insects, and figures are painted. High-grade palace lanterns are also inlaid with jade or white jade. The shapes of palace lanterns are very rich, including square, hexagonal, octagonal, round bead, flower basket, square victory, Pisces, gourd, disc, mugwort leaf, glass, collar and many other varieties, especially hexagonal palace lanterns. 19 15, Beijing Palace Lantern participated in the Panama World Expo for the first time and won the gold medal, which was well received internationally. Since then, palace lanterns have gradually developed in the practical direction, and various chandeliers, wall lamps, table lamps and poke lamps have appeared. China's palace lanterns are the most famous in Beijing. Lantern is a unique ornamental lamp in the art of lantern, and its reputation is all over the world, especially in Guangdong Lantern. Lanterns usually put a wheel in the lamp, and images of various figures, flowers and birds cut out with colored paper are attached to the wheel. Candles are lit under the wheel, and hot air rises, causing air convection, which makes the wheel rotate and the paper image also rotates. The picture is continuous, dynamic and attractive. The gauze lamp takes hemp yarn or hemp fabric as the lamp surface, which is mostly round or oval. Red gauze lanterns, also known as red lanterns, are bright red all over. The lantern is decorated with golden moire above and below, and the bottom is decorated with golden tassels. They are beautiful and generous, festive and auspicious, and are often hung during festivals. Shadow yarn lanterns are made of all kinds of hemp yarn, painted with flowers and birds, insects and fish, pavilions and so on. And decorated with various colors of golden moire and tassels, it is even more colorful, adding luster to festive days.

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Modern lantern art has gradually separated from the traditional lantern practice, creating works of art with unique local flavor. It is very difficult to create, the technology involved is more complicated, and the materials used are wider and more vivid. Festival lanterns (displayed on the Lantern Festival)

The creation of modern lanterns must be integrated into special disciplines such as structure, mechanics, electricity, aesthetics, materials science and creativity, which is the most difficult of all artistic creations at present. However, because the annual Lantern Festival attracts millions of tourists, it has become the most attractive project in various sightseeing activities in Taiwan Province Province and one of the most representative projects of art in Taiwan Province Province.

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The grand occasion of folk song and dance performances such as tea lanterns and floor flower drums is recorded in the local chronicles of Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are two forms of performance: one is "Ugly, Dancing Singing" with characters' stories, which are called Dihuagu, Mazhu Lantern, Pairing and Pairing Lantern; The second is the collective song and dance with arm steps, which is customarily called "swinging lights" and "jumping lights". After a long evolution, some folk song and dance forms, such as Huagu and Lantern, have absorbed the procedural rules of China traditional opera and gradually developed into Huagu opera. Others retain the singing and dancing features of Lantern Festival, and perform the stories of China traditional operas, which are called "Lantern Festival" and "Lantern Festival". Due to the differences of natural geographical environment and the imbalance of historical, political, economic and cultural development, as well as the differences of dialects, music materials and styles in the spread areas and the influence of neighboring sister arts, various lantern operas have their own characteristics in repertoire theme, aria structure and performance characteristics, and their historical development processes are also different. After the lantern was formed in the form of song and dance, artists, after years of practice, artistically processed various movements in life and folk martial arts, and created and developed different styles of civil and military lanterns. The lanterns are beautiful and free, and the martial arts lanterns are strong. Lantern dance is an important part of Yunnan Lantern Festival. Traditional lantern dances include dances without singing, such as lion dancing and monkey playing cotton, and collective singing and dancing, such as lotus fragrance and pulling flowers. At first, the business of Yuanxiao was only divided into men and women, and later it was divided into three businesses: longevity, Dan and ugliness. During the Lantern Festival, many large and medium-sized plays were performed, and other businesses were added. At present, there is no accurate data to prove the origin and development of folk lantern dance as the age of lantern drama. According to the existing literature, in the middle of Ming Dynasty, around 1454, Lan Zhi An, a native of Yanglin, Yunnan, wrote the legend of "The Mystery of Sex and the Moon". In the early Qing Dynasty (1657), He Wei, a native of Yunnan, wrote five legendary dramas. This is the earliest known drama creation activity in Yunnan. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (170 1), professional troupes began to appear in Yunnan, and four troupes once established Wang Le Temple in Kunming. During the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty (1746), Qin, Shipai, Chu and Yiyang were introduced into Yunnan. According to Zhang, an artist of Yuanmou Lantern Festival, Yuanmou Lantern Festival has been passed down for thirteen generations. In addition, among the tunes of lanterns, quite a few are Ming and Qing ditties, such as "Hanging Branches and Playing Dates", which is a popular folk ditty from Wanli to the early Qing Dynasty. According to this calculation, lanterns, as a kind of drama, took shape as early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

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Lantern making has a long history. With the changes of the times, the materials and shapes have changed greatly. Paper, bamboo, satin and wood are very common traditional materials, while plastics, cellophane and acrylic acid are modern materials. In fact, as long as it can transmit light, there is no limit to the materials used to make lanterns. Even fruits, discarded cartons and aluminum cans can be used as materials, and there is unlimited imagination for the change of lanterns. In addition to being like a little firefly in the dark, different shapes also tell lantern holders their wishes in the new year. The lovely Tinker Bell and the warm Winnie the Pooh are the new shapes of modern culture, but the traditional China Zodiac has been replaced by the New Year Festival, and many new shapes that modern people like appear constantly, which can be ranked as the champion of lantern shapes and are loved by people. Being a dragon is the most difficult and complicated among animals, because people say that it is difficult to draw a tiger's skin, but it is difficult to draw a drum. Because if it is a character, as long as it is asymmetrical, it will be very strange. Students with lanterns really want to do this theme, especially when they are Guanyin idols. Lantern masters usually advise him not to do it, or make cartoons simpler, and it will be ugly if the realism is incorrect. In ancient times, lanterns were made of bamboo. If you use wire to make lanterns, you will find that this structure is like building a new house. You can do whatever you want with wire, just like suddenly finding a way and doing whatever you want. There is also a feeling that you can give you any shape by adjusting the wires, and the thinking direction is not just one direction. Maybe this direction needs it to protrude a little. It's a little concave A line can have many changes, which is equivalent to speaking in the direction. It can rotate and bend in 360-degree wireless space, not just in all directions. It should be quite difficult to train our thinking ability.

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Different photos of lanterns (19 photos) Lantern Festival is here and lanterns are popular. If you have leisure time, it is also a good idea to make your own lanterns. You can't make the "big guy" sold on the street, and you can't find materials such as steel wire and steel plate. Then make a simple paper lantern with bamboo strips, rice paper and pen and ink. Handmade paper lanterns are simple in materials and techniques, which can not only design their favorite patterns, but also add a lot of fun to festivals. The first step is to make the skeleton. The simple shape of a paper lantern is a cube or cylinder. It is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and the joints are tied tightly with thin lines. If it is difficult to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue. The firmness and elasticity will be lacking, but it is also a good decoration indoors. Material selection: 1. Put the bamboo in the steam room (or heat it for half an hour), then take it out and dry it in the shade, but it should not be excessively dried or exposed to strong light. 2. Peel and cut: peel off the rough skin and cut the length of bamboo strips according to the size of lanterns. The frame is interwoven to complete the lamp holder, and several bamboo rings are tied to the lamp wall in the middle of the lamp holder. To make the lamp body, buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study store, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and then you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be displayed on small lanterns. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns. If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple method for reference. Use a thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then overlap this thin paper with crimson rice paper and dig out the words with a single-edged blade. Remove the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, and red rice paper is pasted inside, which reflects candlelight or light from the hollowed-out place, and the effect is quite beautiful. If you are a light source indoors, you only need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; If you want to realize it, you'd better make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries. It may look a little rough, but it is unique to light lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Brush the diluted slurry evenly on the surface of the skeleton, then paste cotton gauze, gently paste the cut gauze on the lamp holder, brush it with a brush, and finally paste the second layer of single-sided glossy paper for lanterns (fine cotton paper can also be used if there is no single-sided glossy paper). Note that the brush used to paste the batter must be clean, and the pasted paper must be pasted without seams to be truly pasted. Put the lanterns in a cool and ventilated place to dry. Painting 1, painting or cutting and pasting: painting or cutting and pasting with personal patterns, such as figures, eight immortals, flowers and birds, ladies, etc. 2. Write words: After painting, decide whether to write words according to the situation. When the words and patterns are completely dry, the lantern is finished.

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Old lamp period

Before the Revolution of 1911, lanterns popular all over Yunnan were collectively called "old lanterns". It can be divided into two categories: lantern dance and lantern play. The former sings and dances when performing, and there are no stories, such as "pulling flowers" and "group games" in various places; The latter story is simple, but it still focuses on singing and dancing, such as fishing, rural in-laws, and sister Bao Er.

Xinguang period

The new lantern is the reformed Yuxi lantern. Great changes have taken place in Yunnan after the Revolution of 1911. Yuxi is located in the middle of Yunnan, near Kunming, with convenient transportation and developed agriculture, handicrafts and commerce. The wind of freedom brought by the Revolution of 1911 made the well-informed Yuxi people no longer satisfied with the original Yuxi lanterns, and the wind of change quietly rose. Lantern artists began to transplant and adapt a number of plays with good books on cloud drama and folk art, such as Python, Golden Bell Cover and White Fan. Musically, tunes such as "Ten Cups of Wine", "Yu Meiren" and "Zhaotong Tune" were introduced, and traditional tunes such as "Chuban" and "Wulitang" were adapted into a banqiang style. Besides, I also studied the performing arts and makeup of Yunnan Opera. This series of changes has made Yuxi Huagu change its previous performance form, which is mainly song and dance, and appear on the stage with a brand-new look. The appearance of new lanterns was welcomed by the audience, especially in the city, and soon affected the whole province.

Red Army lamp, national salvation lamp, student lamp

1936, when the Red Second Army passed through Yao 'an, Yunnan Province on the way to the Long March, local artists made up plays such as "Foreigners Noisy China" and "Catch Soldiers" to welcome the Red Army and called them "Red Lantern". After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Yunnan dramatist Wang Dandong and Lantern artist Xiong formed the "Yunnan Peasant Salvation Lantern Drama Society" and performed in Kunming, Yuxi, Puning, Tonghai and Qujiang, Guangdong. According to the tune of Yuxi Lantern Festival, they created and performed Lantern Festival plays such as Twelve Flowers and Twelve Generals in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Xiaoer Joining the Army, Shooting Luo Xiaoyun, Traitor Violence, New Army Coming out of the Kiln and Chashan Killing the Enemy. These plays all have literary scripts, which changed the "outline play" situation of the original lantern play. They also introduced March of the Volunteers's tone into lantern music, creating a new lantern tone-revenge tone. During the War of Liberation and the student movement in Kunming, the PLA column in the border area of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi compiled and performed new dramas such as A Country Family and A Sea of Blood, which were called "the light of students". Fourth, the "light clip play" period. 1938, Yunnan Farmers Salvation Lantern Troupe was forced to disband, and the lantern artist Xiong taught and sang lanterns in Kunming and Yuxi. 1946, Xiong sang lanterns in Kunming Qingyun teahouse for three days, which was very popular. Later, the teahouse was changed into a lantern garden, which became the first lantern theater in Yunnan and formed a fixed professional class club. In order to meet the needs of professional performances, lantern artists began to transplant a large number of Yunnan operas, such as Four Seasons of Henan Opera, Dripping Water, Zhu Shazhi, Civet Cat for Prince, The Story of Red Lantern and The Story of Yarn Lantern. At the same time, I further studied and absorbed the performance procedures, costume props and stage installations of Yunnan Opera. This way of singing Yunnan opera with lantern tunes is called "Lantern Opera"

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Western Fujian, the ancestral home of Hakkas, has unique local conditions and customs. The priceless Xi Zhi Lantern is a wonderful flower. Xi Zhi Lantern Festival has a history of nearly 300 years. As early as the 45th year of Kangxi (AD 1706), Xi Zhi native Yang Yanshan became an official in Suzhou, and his wife Wu Ergu was from Suzhou. She likes Suzhou lanterns and gongs and drums, so they spread from Suzhou to Xi Zhi. Most lanterns are made up of 99 small lanterns, some of which are 106. Each lamp has a glass cup, which is pure peanut oil or tea oil. It is smokeless, bright and crystal clear. A red line is tied to an arched bamboo pole on the top of the treasure cover for the lamp holder to hold. Each lantern is nearly 15 kg after refueling. Because it is "paper wrapped in fire", the person holding the lamp is always careful when holding the lamp. They have all undergone rigorous training, at least to "keep their feet steady" and "keep the lights on". When the light is turned on, the drum band is in front and the dazzling lanterns are behind. The lamp is held high by one person and guarded by many people around it, just like the stars arch the moon. From a distance, these lanterns are like clusters of night pearls, bright, shiny and colorful. Careful observation of these lanterns reveals that each lantern is made up of hundreds of small lanterns. Lantern is divided into upper and lower parts. Part of it is called Bao Gai, and the shaft has two layers of lanterns, and the left and right rotation directions are opposite; Surrounded by various lamps, it is divided into three layers: the upper layer is peony bud lamp, 5 lamps; The middle layer is a phoenix lamp, 6 lamps; The lower floor is full fish lamp, with 6 lamps. These lanterns are exquisite and beautiful, and the whole feather is often dotted with a string of colorful beads, which is really beautiful. The lower part is the lantern main body, the axis is the Bao umbrella flowerpot lamp, and the surrounding 12 string is divided into two layers: the inner layer is hexagonal palace lamp, or peony lamp and flowerpot lamp; The outer layer is a flower basket lamp. Every year on the 11th day of the first lunar month, there are dozens, dozens or even 100 lanterns in Xi Zhi. If you stand on a high place and overlook, the lanterns are connected end to end, and the night sky is bright and magnificent. [ 1]

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The Origin of Xiushan Lantern

Xiushan Lantern Festival is an important school of Lantern Festival art in southwest China. It is a folk cultural phenomenon and a folk performing art that integrates religion, folklore, singing and dancing, acrobatics and paper binding art, and it is a valuable cultural heritage of our national folk music. Xiushan Lantern is the most representative lantern art in Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County and Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Chongqing. Also known as jumping lights, lighting, lantern show. It is an ancient folk song, dance and rap art that spreads in the Tujia inhabited area in Wuling Mountain area. Xiushan Lantern Festival starts from the second day of the first month and ends on the fifteenth day of the first month. After sixteen, it is called "thick-faced lantern". The traditional performance of Xiushan Lantern is not limited to venues, such as dams, halls and streets, as long as there is flat land above 10 square meters. Due to the needs of the performance form, style and content of lantern classes around the country, there are also special venues. For example, the performance of "high-platform lantern" requires two or three traditional and old-fashioned wooden square tables, and two performers perform lantern-to-lantern duets on the desktop, overlapping the heights of several tables. A lantern show requires "building a stage" and simple scenery, and is usually performed on the earthen platform or diaojiao building of the dam. After hundreds of years of development, Xiushan Lantern has gradually formed a unique folk art.

Historical origin

Chongqing Lantern originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties, continued in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It is a comprehensive performing art that combines song, dance, drama and folk percussion, and mainly focuses on song and dance performances. Xiushan County in the southeast of Chongqing is known as the "hometown of lanterns". Its lantern dance originated from the "Lantern Opera" of the Han nationality, and then it was integrated with the dance performance skills of Tujia and Miao nationalities, and developed into an artistic form with novel style, moving songs and dances, which was deeply loved by the people of Han, Tu and Miao nationalities. Lantern is a simple, humorous, lyrical and beautiful comprehensive art that combines song, dance and rhyme with percussion instruments and strings. According to historical records, it originated from the "Dance Troupe" in the Yuan Dynasty (that is, men and women sang and danced on a table of the Eight Immortals). In the Ming Dynasty, it was included in the song and dance performances of some tea-picking operas and was called "Lantern". Later, it developed into a flower stand, a unilateral lantern show and a modern lantern show.

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The performance has a complete set of procedures, mainly including: setting up a lighting hall, turning on the lights (please turn on the lights), jumping the lights and returning the lights. Among lanterns, setting up a lantern hall is a performance activity with strong traditional ceremony. Lantern class should set up a lantern hall to worship the gods such as "Miss Jinhua" and "Yin Hua Ernian" before putting out lanterns, and the lantern master will light incense sticks and burn paper money to worship the lantern god, praying and wishing the people who dance lanterns all the best, peace and good luck. After the worship ceremony, they sang and danced in the lamp hall. First, the lighting engineer will lead the singing of An Wei, Singing Wei and Opening the Light, and then everyone will sing "Lighting Song" and the song to be performed. After the lantern invitation ceremony, the lantern class can go out and dance lanterns. Jumping lanterns are the main performance activities of lanterns. Lantern classes are all jumping around the halls and dams of lantern pickers. Sing "Watching Lights Tune" and "Congratulatory Tune" first, and sing "Xie Zhudao Tune" when leaving. On the fifteenth night of the first month of each year, the Lantern Festival class will hold a Lantern Festival ceremony on the riverside dam to worship the gods and sing "Send the Lantern Tune". The master of lighting will lead all the lantern tunes sung during the Spring Festival (called the Lantern Tune). Then burn lanterns and shrines, throw the clothes of the lantern jumpers out of the fire, and pray for the safety of the lantern jumpers for one year.

Form of performance

After a long period of development and evolution, the performance forms of Xiushan and Youyang lanterns are: lantern duet (single lantern for two), double lantern for four (double lantern for four), lantern group dance (lantern performed by many people), lantern play (drama) and so on. In the performance, the lyrics sung by the actors are called lanterns. Yuanxiao Ci has a strong local flavor, which states the content, expresses the plot, expresses the emotion and attracts the audience. Among them, some Deng Hua Ci absorbed some folk tunes of Han nationality, including original lyrics of landlord dramas such as tea-picking dramas and ancient painting dramas. Apart from the lantern show, there are only two characters in the show, one is ugly, the other is Sister Yao, and the clown is Lai or other names. When dancing, Yao Jie wore long hair and a big-breasted skirt, with a silk-edged folding fan in her right hand and a colorful towel in her left hand, straightened her waist, walked with tinkling steps, sang and danced, and performed innocent, lively, humorous and provocative roles. Lai tied the headscarf into a "half-moon", wore a double-breasted dress, tied a red ribbon around his waist, held a big cattail fan in his hand, stepped on the short pile steps, and turned around his sister with the action of "swinging willows in the wind" to perform a funny and humorous role. The lyrics are flexible, long or short. They can sing on a long road, and actors and audiences can communicate with each other and blend in.