Derived from the folk lantern song and dance of what is widely popular among the Han Chinese nation

Originally from the folk lantern song and dance of the lantern play what is widely popular among the Han Chinese people in a form of opera art.

Flower Lantern Opera is the main local opera in Guizhou and Yunnan, which originated from folk lantern songs and dances, and developed into local opera in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In the popular process, it was influenced by local dialects, folk songs and customs, and formed a variety of different singing and performing styles. During the performance of Hua Lantern Opera, the artistes keep their hands off the fans and pads, singing and dancing, and the combination of singing and doing is very close.

Floral Lantern Opera from the folk, script characters less, the plot is relatively simple, lyrics and white, easy to understand, singing are absorbed the characteristics of the folk songs, cheerful and bright, lively and fun performance, singing and dancing flavor is very strong, mostly to express the life of a small comedy, full of the fragrance of the soil.

Features of Lantern Opera

1, Guizhou Lantern Opera is mainly popular in Dushan, Zunyi, Bijie, Anshun, Tongren and other places, the name of each place is different, the north of Qianbei, the Qianxi area is called "lamp folder play", Dushan area is called "table lamp". The name of the opera varies from place to place, it is called "lamp folder opera" in the area of Qianbei and Qianxi, "table lamp" in the area of Dushan, and "high stage opera" or "lantern opera" in the area of Sinan and Yinjiang.

There are more than 140 kinds of Dushan lantern plays, including 85 kinds of early stage plays such as "Golden Bell" and "Python", 27 kinds of transplanted plays such as "Guillotine Case", and 27 kinds of newly created plays such as "Seven Sisters and Snake Lang".

2, Yunnan lantern theater has Kunming lantern theater, Yuxi lantern theater and Yaoan lantern theater three major branches, in addition to the small branches of the extremely large number of names, Wenshan, Qujing, Chuxiong, Maidu, Luoping, Yuanmou, Lufeng, Jianshui, Mengzi and other places have their own lantern theater.

Yunnan lantern play is initially performed by the song and dance components of the lantern play, and later by the influence of Dian opera and other types of theater, the emergence of a more complex plot twists and turns of the repertoire, while absorbing the tunes of other types of theater to change and expand and renovate, the formation of a new lantern play tune.

The most prosperous period of Yunnan lantern opera is the 1950s and 1960s, at this time not only emerged Shi Baofeng, Xiong Jiechen, Yuan Liuan and many other famous lantern opera actors, but also appeared in the "tan dry sister", "haunted ferry", "Liu Cheng see vegetables", "three visits to the relatives of a number of Yunnan opera stage repertoire renowned.