What kinds of lanterns are there in Yunnan?

First of all, from the perspective of repertoire, traditional lantern plays are mostly "three small" plays of primary school students, small burdens and clowns, which generally reflect rural productive labor, marriage and family ethics. Many plays, such as "Spring is bursting", "Detective Dry Girl" and "Dachashan", have a strong Yunnan flavor from the script content, lyrics and narration. Secondly, due to the long-term popularity of lanterns in the vast areas inhabited by Han people and ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province, the differences in local dialects, customs and music tunes have formed many tribes of lanterns in Yunnan. For example, Kunming Lantern, Yuxi Lantern, Chuxiong Lantern and Jianshui Lantern all have their own characteristics. Kunming lanterns, mostly retaining Ming and Qing ditties; Yuxi has many lanterns, books and plays; Chuxiong lantern folk songs have more minor tunes; Jianshui Lantern has absorbed some Yi things from music to lyrics and Taoism. Thirdly, in connection with the second point, the source of Yuanxiao music is quite extensive. Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), thousands of songs have been collected. Generally speaking, there are several situations: some are handed down from the Ming and Qing Dynasties; A large number of folk songs are minor; Part of it is absorbed from Yunnan dulcimer, religious music and national music; Others are transplanted from some operas in brother provinces and cities. Lantern absorbed tunes from many sources and formed lantern music. The singing habits, cavity moistening methods, dance, drama rhythm, Yunnan dialect pronunciation, etc. of Lantern Music make Lantern Music integrate diversity and unity. Fourth, the outstanding feature of the performance is singing and dancing. In the past, people in Yunnan also called singing lanterns "twisting lanterns", and there was even a saying that "you can't make lanterns without twisting them" It can be seen that "Wei" plays an important role in lantern dance. Of course, it is also the same distortion. Life, Dan and ugliness are different, so it is necessary to distort the personality characteristics of the characters. In addition to twisting the waist, there are dozens of lantern dances such as spinning, jumping, fan flower, towel, encouragement, dragon dance, overlord whip and lantern dance.