Yunnan lantern props are silk scarves or handkerchiefs

Yunnan lantern props are handkerchiefs, which are used by actors to show some movements. Yunnan Hua Lantern Opera is a kind of folk song and dance. It originated in the Ming Dynasty or earlier when the folk "social fire" activities in the lanterns, popular in all parts of the province and individual areas of Sichuan and Guizhou.

Because of the difference between the voice and artists sing differently, popular in different areas of the lantern and accepted the influence of different kinds of songs, plays or folk songs, so the Yunnan lantern and divided into Kunming, Chenggong lanterns, Yuxi lanterns and other types of theater.

Yunnan lantern theater other information.

The traditional repertoire of lantern theater is not much, excluding the "lamp folder theater" period moved over the Yunnan opera repertoire, **** about two hundred or so. Among them: lantern song and dance repertoire of "ten big sister", "big head baby play Liu Cui", "tread even box", lantern drama repertoire, such as "three stars", "red back to the door" and so on. After liberation, in the chemical vigorously organize the traditional repertoire at the same time, but also a new large lantern play "Yilai Khan" and nearly a hundred plays.