Xiushan lantern

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Xiushan lantern

Applicant: Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing

Item No.: 499

Project No.: X - 51

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Chongqing

Type: new item

Applicant: Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing

Protection unit: cultural center of Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County

Introduction to Xiushan lantern

Applicant: Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing

Xiushan lantern is popular in Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County of Chongqing. It originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties, continued in the yuan and Ming Dynasties, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, developed in the Republic of China, and flourished after the founding of the people's Republic of China. It is a comprehensive performing art with song and dance performance as the main part, which integrates song, dance, drama and folk percussion.

Xiushan lantern has single lantern performed by two people, double lantern performed by four people and group lantern performed by many people. The music includes two parts: melody and percussion. The melody can be divided into "zhengdiao" and "Zadiao". The traditional repertoire includes more than 500 pieces such as "Huangyang Biandan". The percussion music includes more than 40 pieces such as "lazy dragon crossing the river" and "fierce tiger descending the mountain". The lantern opera also includes "huazi" "Drunk" and more than 30 plays. Xiushan lantern show starts on the second day of the first month and ends on the fifteenth day of the first month. After the sixteenth day, it is called "thick face lantern". There is a complete set of procedures for performing lanterns, including sacrificing lanterns, turning on lanterns, opening doors of wealth, watching lanterns, sending birthday moon, lighting red lights, paying New Year's greetings, thanking the Lord, saying goodbye to gods, burning lanterns, etc.

In the long-term performance, it has formed the characteristics of dance, singing, drama, simulation, nationality, region, procedure and mass, which are deeply loved by the masses.

Saving and protecting Xiushan lantern is of great practical and academic value for enriching people's cultural life and promoting the study of Tujia folk music and dance art and its history.