Xiushan lantern, is an important genre of lanterns in southwest art in our country, religion, folk custom, singing and dancing, acrobatics, art paper as one of the phenomenon of folk culture and folk performing arts, is precious national folk music and cultural heritage in our country.
Xiushan lantern to chongqing xiushan lantern art, which is the most representative of tujia and miao autonomous county, named jump is also called the lantern, lantern, lantern, is a kind of ancient folk songs and dances rap art, throughout the county village, town, notably the pass, qingxi, lanqiao welcomed, kai ping, chicken and pouring hole, ocean, soluble creek, I dissolved, jade screen, for the most.
On May 20, 2006, the "xiushan flower lamp" declared by miao autonomous county of xiushan tujia ethnic group of chongqing was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list approved by the state council.
I. artistic characteristics
arrangements
Initially perform play is a musical composition heavy lanterns, after affected by yunnan play drama, such as lantern opera artists through the labyrinth of repertoire, in the improvement of the plot is also absorbed the tune to change, development and renovation, founded the new adjustable lantern. The newly constructed lamp adopts the arranger mode of the melody connection, which has certain characteristics of music of the board cavity, suitable for the traditional drama of the performance. Besides, the melody of xiushan flower lantern opera and various folk tunes play an important role in the whole play.
Dynamic law
The basic moving-law feature of the flower lantern dance is "sprat", and there is a saying that "no more than a lamp". The viewer watches the lantern dance to see if the "sprained ball", that is to say, the waist, the range of the hips to be large, whether the flexible coordination, posture nature. In particular, the emphasis is on posture, and the shape of the feet is not untenable, which naturally raises and can be seen; The gesture of the hand should swing naturally along with the steps, like willow dance, so the hand of "sprained step" is called "wind swinging willow".
The sprained step is the basis of the "dance step" of the lantern. When "sprained", waist, hip twist should match the knee to bend and bend, the crotch is bigger. In addition, "sprained" also has "waiting for a step," "sprat", "anti-sprained", "walking", "slanting across the fan", "spiral snails" and other sprained moves. The movement of the waist in these movements should be highlighted. The various "sprained steps" of the lanterns often correspond to certain characters, such as "zhengwei", "the female anti-sprained" lyrical;" "The pride of the great anti-back"; "The lively, lively," the gentle and flexible "of" the step ". Little sprained "easy and lively," the "big jerk" of hot and steady, etc.
In addition to the "sprained step", the dance figure is also unique, with "walking" and "jumping". "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "Jumping", "jumping", "jumping", "jumping", "walking", "jumping", "carp crossing the river", "wu long legs", etc.

music
Xiushan flower lamp is popular with its beautiful melody, lively rhythm and unique style. The famous flower lantern song "huang Yang", "a handful of rapeseed" and so on, went to the national great hall, and is well known at home and abroad.
Xiushan lantern music, except to music composition, also is a blend of local folk songs, folk songs, minor, opera and other beneficial ingredients, formed with local national style, amorous feelings of music form, melody, the structure of the novel modulation and standard, the rhythm is bright, rich dance, give a person the sense with a witty humor, festive joy.

form
After long-term development and evolution of xiushan lantern form: lanterns errenzhuan (two people performance of lanterns) single, double lanterns (four performance of double lanterns), lanterns, yi (more lanterns), lantern (drama), etc.
In the performance, the singing lyrics of the actors are called flower lanterns. The rich local flavor of the flower-lantern words, the content of the statement, the expression of the plot, express the emotion, attract the audience. Among them, some of the lantern words absorbed some folk tunes from the han nationality to have the original singing words of the landlords, such as the tea scenes and the flowers and drum operas.
In addition to the scenes, the performance is only once an ugly two characters, the horn is called the youngest sister, the ugly horn is called lai hua son or other name. Long jump, MAO sister comb bian, wearing a cloth skirt of thin silk, right hand holding the silk edge folding fan, left hand festoon wipes, straight waist, stepping step tintin, singing and dancing, acting the role of innocent and lively, witty, provocative. Lai hanako, put the scarf tied into "half a month," wearing a double-breasted garment, tied with red ribbon, hand take big cattail leaf fan, step on the short pile, with "the wind swing willow" action around MAO sister, acting funny, witty, instruments and the sentence pattern flexible, can be long or short, can be long way singing, the audience to have them, actors and audience communicate with each other, be in harmony are an organic whole.

Two people turn to a lantern
This is the main acting form of xiushan flower lamp. From the position of the youngest sister and the flower girl, it is different from the "two people" that are popular in other parts of the country, but the characteristics of the "door-to-door" jump. It is the inheritance of the "dance group", which is the man around the woman, the ugly around the beauty, the low around the high turn. Female, beautiful, high in the center position, with "feet and stand back to the right body", retaining the obvious characteristics of primitive female worship.

Double lanterns
That is, two boys and two girls. Mainly used for the performance of the big scenes such as "double picking tea", "big red light" and "drama", which are performed in the form of double flower lanterns. In some places, the performances and folk acrobatics have been added to the performance, such as "flower and son's interrupting" and "turning over the factory", thus adding a warm atmosphere and fun.
Lanterns, yi
It was formed from the development of "lanterns and lanterns". It is the kind of performance that the people enjoy and the most closely connected with the new era. The performance form is a large lantern song and dance performed by two women, four women, four women and many women. The performance should have a professional stage.
lantern
Xiushan folk traditional flower lantern opera, also known as "one-sided play", also called "flower lantern song and dance drama", "flower lantern small play". Usually there is no set, the actor is simple, the plot is simple, the performance time is short. There are three characters of living, denier and ugliness. The content mainly displays folk life and legends and legends.

Major plays
Mountain lanterns are mainly distributed in xiushan lanqiao, creek, I dissolve area, main repertoire are: "the shepherd boy see cow", "watching ox chess", "three daughter-in-law JingShou", the hoop hooper, kannika nimtragol, "plate of flowers", "cousin plate of flowers", "his wife plate flower", "three bowls of FanPan flower", "flower son drunk", "hsu motherhood", "hsu matchmaking", "the jade bottle of music", "the nanjing", "flower", "five cups of wine", "three bowls of rice", "samsung SongZi", "in the same year, the younger sister to play color", "alarm jiangzhou", "Chen Gu catch pan", "the four seasons scenery", "wan lotus pond", "hug boa elder sister", "the tailor to steal cloth", "Liu Huzi brother playing chess", "fishing life saving", "aunt wang repair cylinder", "hundred flowers give sword", "send m in peace", "the newspaper article" and "even" and so on more than 30 fold. These playlet mostly reflect people's labor, love and the People's Daily life, has the characteristics of a lively, relaxed funny humorous, local flavor, although content monotonous shallow, but are very popular among common people.
Iii. Inheritance value
During the long period of performance, xiushan flower lanterns formed the characteristics of dance, singing, drama, simulation, nationality, regional, procedural and mass, which were popular among the masses. It is of great practical value and academic value to rescue and protect xiushan lanterns and to enrich the cultural life of the people and promote the study of tujia folk custom music dance art and its history.