Vivid and interesting Guiyang Lantern Festival

Guiyang culture has a long history, among which the lively and interesting Lantern Opera in Guiyang is one of the components of Guiyang culture and a national intangible cultural heritage. Lantern Festival is a popular folk art in China all over the country. It is easy to understand, full of the fragrance of earth, and deeply loved by local people. Then, let's learn about the lively and interesting Guiyang Lantern Festival with me.

Lantern Opera is widely popular in Jiangxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places in southern China. It is a traditional opera art form and belongs to Han folk opera. Lantern Festival is developed from Lantern Dance, commonly known as Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival and so on.

The earliest ancient book that recorded lantern art was the Records of Zhili County, Pingyao, which was written in the second year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1663). It is said that "the weak men in the city dress up as women, and a group of people hold flower baskets as tea pickers and lamps as tea baskets." Everywhere they go, they sing the song "Picking Tea in December". What is recorded here is the custom of playing with lights in Zunyi.

The custom of playing lanterns in Guiyang can be found in Qian Shu edited by Tian Wen during the reign of Emperor Kangxi. Among them, the poem "Spring Lantern", which is unknown, has the sentences of "picking tea with flowers" and "wandering in a string of lanterns". Write about the scenes of Bai Na and Wumeng ethnic minorities playing lanterns in the suburbs of Guiyang during the Spring Festival. The poetry of Tea Picking is "Tea Picking Song in December".

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, the Lantern Festival was approved by the state to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Lantern opera comes from the folk, with few characters in the script, simple plot, simple lyrics and easy to understand, and its singing absorbs the characteristics of folk songs. It is cheerful and clear, with lively and funny performances and strong singing and dancing flavor. It is most famous for its life comedy, which is full of the fragrance of earth.

Lantern Opera is developed from folk song and dance lanterns, camellia lanterns, ground flower drums and "tunes". It mainly includes Xiangxi Lantern Festival, Xiangbei Lantern Festival represented by Pingjiang Lantern Festival and Xiangnan Lantern Festival represented by Jiahe Lantern Festival. There are few characters in the script, the plot is simple, the lyrics are plain and easy to understand, and the singing has the characteristics of absorbing folk songs It is cheerful and clear, with lively and funny performances and strong singing and dancing flavor. Most of them are good at expressing life and small comedies full of earthy fragrance.

The repertoire of Lantern Opera is mainly old novels, folk stories and folk tunes. Traditional repertoires include Liu Sanmei Picking Water (1956 won the second prize of the first amateur art exhibition of workers and peasants in Guizhou Province), New Year's greetings, herding cattle to stop his wife, surrogate marriage, Wang Erbian's funeral, washing pants and playing with lights, Mo Dad persuading gambling and sisters watching flowers and offering tea.

Dramas adapted from Chinese dramas include Liu Yin Ji, Jade Pin Ji, Killing Sister-in-law on May 2nd, Meng Zheng Driving Fast, Killing Dogs and Persuading Husband, Returning to the Kiln in Pinggui, Gui Ren Joining the Army, Feng Ting Driving Children, Yuanmen Killing Children, Chen Gu Driving Pan, Shi Xiu Killing Sister-in-law, etc.

There are dozens of plays adapted from folk songs, such as Hanging High the Red Lantern, Two Plums, Eight Immortals, Python, Dripping Water, Zhao Fan, Pipa and Biography of a Crane.