On Lingtou Festival, the host village invited a group of "ghost teachers" (wizards) to dance in Lingtou, in order to reward God and pray. During the meeting, villagers from all directions gathered in Ji Xian, where they held a banquet to slaughter animals and gave them warm hospitality. They sang and danced in Lingtou for two or more days in a row, and the drums kept beating all night. The scene is very lively. The "ghost teacher class" in Lingtou Dance is generally composed of twenty or thirty folk artists. The night before, the ghost teacher first set up an altar teacher in the temple site set up by the low ridge or lawn in the village, commonly known as "fief", in order to ask the ancestors (Northern Emperor) gods to stop the five evil spirits. When installing the altar, write the name of God on colored paper and stick couplets on the altar and the lintel of the temple altar respectively. Then I will beat gongs and drums for a while, which is regarded as "opening a temple". The next morning, all the members of the Ghost Class gathered on the altar, made a "dragon boat" and a "tooth flag" out of bamboo and colored paper and put them on the altar. Then, they danced "Master with High Feet": one person put on a mask, put on a dragon robe, tied a bell in his hand, played drums and sang lyrics, the torches of the Song and Ming Dynasties lit up the temple, and the villagers gathered around the temple to watch the performance. There are 127 teacher classes in Lingshan, and their teachers are basically directly or indirectly related to Qinghe Hall in Dengyang Village.

Dragon Head Festival is a traditional folk festival custom in Qinzhou area, also known as "Tiaolingtou". It is a local festival second only to the Spring Festival, and it is named because its activities are mostly held at the edge of the village. According to the Record of Customs in Volume 22 of Lingshan County Records in the third year of the Republic of China: "In August and September, witches and ghosts were released in front of the society, and then they entered the house to drive away evil spirits and epidemics, which was also a legacy of rural Nuo." This shows that "Tiaolingtou" is related to ancient rural furniture. The earliest literature of this custom of "crossing the mountains" with ancient Nuo features can be found in the Customs in Volume 1 of Qinzhou Annals of Jiajing Edition of Ming Dynasty: "Mid-Autumn Festival in August, offering sacrifices under a pseudonym. Dancing as a ghost at Lingtou is called jumping at Lingtou. " It is not surprising that men and women get together to look at each other, sing and answer each other, pretend to be husband and wife, pretend to be parents and pretend to be brothers. Today, it has evolved from the initial religious ceremony to folk entertainment.

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