When was the lantern show first

The earliest record of lantern art is the early Kangxi II years of the Qing Dynasty (1663) of the "Ping Yue Zhi Zhi", said that "the city of weak boys decorated with women's clothing, group of hand-held flower basket lamps, pretending to be a tea-picking women, lamps as tea baskets, each to a place, and always around the court and sang the "December Tea Picking" song". Here is a record of Zunyi's custom of playing lights.

The origin

The lantern play is widely popular in southern China, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, as well as Shaanxi and other places, is a form of opera art, belongs to the folk small theater species. Lantern Opera was developed from Lantern Song and Dance, commonly known as Lantern Folder Opera, Flower Opera and so on. The earliest record of lantern art is the Qing dynasty Kangxi two years (1663) at the beginning of the "Ping Yue Zhi Zhi", said "the city of weak boys decorated with women's clothing, group of hand-held flower basket lamps, fake tea picking women, lamps for tea baskets, each to a place, always around the court and sang the "December tea picking" song". Recorded here is the Zunyi play light custom. And Guiyang's play light custom is seen in the Kangxi years Tian Wen edited the "Qian Shu", which Anonymous "Spring Lights words" have "bun flower bell singing tea", "string as lanterns mincing line" sentence. Write Guiyang suburbs of Baina, Wumeng ethnic minorities play lights in the Spring Festival scene. The poem "picking tea" is the "December Tea Picking Song".

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the lantern play by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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