What are the artistic characteristics of lantern songs?

Popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan and other provinces in the "lantern" song and dance form of performance in the song. In the old days, it was mainly sung at the Lantern Festival during the performance of "lanterns". Most of the songs come from the mountain songs and ditties of the areas where they are sung, and are developed in conjunction with the performance of "lanterns". Since "lanterns" are songs and dances, and some are operas, most of the lantern songs can be sung in "lantern songs and dances" as well as in "lantern operas". Yunnan Province is rich in lantern song repertoire, the number of no less than a hundred, commonly used, such as the "backboard paddle", "embroidered purse", "haystack", "ten big sisters", "hanging branches", "flowers", "love", "red embroidered shoes", "picking flowers" and so on. The lamp songs of Midu, Yuxi, Yaoan and other places in the province are praised for their beautiful and lyrical artistic features. Guizhou Province lamp song has collected more than 200 songs, commonly used tunes such as "skillful grooming", "twelve cups of wine", "playing chess", "Begonia", "embroidery tune", "send Lang", "watching the lights", "financial door tune", etc., the province of Zunyi, Dushan area lamp song is the most distinctive part of it. Sichuan Province lamp song tunes according to statistics also nearly a hundred, commonly used tunes such as "Luoyang Bridge", "picking purse", "watching the lights", "Huang Yang Bian Tan", etc., the province of Xiushan area lamp song, with its lively, bright musical style for the masses. In Hunan Province, there are more than a hundred lamp songs accumulated, commonly used tunes such as "four seasons of flowers", "flowers", "October flowers", "Lantern Festival", "jumping powder wall", "snow drift", etc., the music has a simple, harmonic characteristics.