What are the customs of Songzi?

Songzi Lantern Dance Songzi Lantern Dance is the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage in Hubei Province. Roll lantern is a kind of paper lantern in China lantern art, which originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and was introduced to Songzi, Hubei Province due to the great population migration in history. The Lantern Festival in history began in the Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties and became more and more popular. Before liberation, Liu Lucheng, the father of Liu Shouyu, a folk artist in Babao Dongyue Town, celebrated the New Year with a lantern. After the founding of New China, Liu Shouyu passed down the lantern rolling dance dictated by his father, which made this folk art spread to this day. 1978, after arrangement and adaptation, the lyrics and songs are included in Hubei Folk Songs. 1980 was selected in Selected Folk Songs of China (published in Shanghai). Rolling lantern dance takes "dragging, beating, swinging, swinging" as the main body, forming a lively, peaceful and festive dance with lights dancing and lights turning. Fully demonstrate the people's good wishes for "unity, roundness and brightness". Percussion plays a role of infiltration, contrast and connection in lantern dance performance. It consists of five percussion instruments: drum, gong, cymbal, horse gong and small gong. Drum (winter) timbre is warm and thick; The sound of the big gong (wide) is deep and unrestrained; The timbre of cymbals is stable and bright; The sound of Rome is cheerful and lively; Xiao Gong (Tai), with crisp and pleasant timbre, is a relatively complete percussion instrument when ensemble, and can fully display the characteristics and performance of percussion instruments when solo. "Lantern Dance" evolved from the traditional custom of playing "Lantern Dance" on the 15th day of the first month in Songzi since ancient times. It is usually performed before and after the Lantern Festival, and has the characteristics of folk inheritance. "Rolling Lantern Dance" is selected from the unique percussion sound in Songzi. In particular, horsemen play the role of command and coordination and run through the whole dance. The main points of gongs and drums are: flower gongs, long hammers, big and small heads, random hammers, rolling heads, etc. When playing, it changes with the change of dance, with light and heavy, alternating fast and slow, clear rhythm and warm atmosphere, which makes the whole dance scene more dynamic and intense. The dance feature of "Rolling Lantern Dance" is that the performers use the dynamic laws of "pushing, dragging, beating, swinging, swinging" and the size of "whirling" to form a scene in which lights dance for people and lights turn for people, which is of great aesthetic characteristics.