Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is a popular traditional folk art in China. Its outstanding feature is that the hand never leaves the fan and handkerchief, singing and dancing, and singing and doing are closely combined. Lantern Festival originated from folk lantern dance, which is a local opera form formed in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In the process of popularity, due to the influence of local dialects, folk songs and customs, different singing and performance styles have been formed.

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

The repertoire of Lantern Opera is mainly old novels, folk stories and folk tunes. 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.

In terms of music, the tunes of Xiangxi Lantern Opera mainly come from light tone, and a large number of folk songs are used as the vocals in the play. There are two kinds of vocal cavity: tune and minor, and there is also an ancient scale tone with only one key. Accompaniment instruments can be divided into literary and martial arts fields, such as Daqin, Hu Tao and war drums. Paper-cut music of southern Hunan Lantern Opera can be divided into two kinds: playing the board and playing the silk string.

In terms of performing arts, foot color and stage art, these three lantern plays also have their own characteristics. Xiangxi Lantern Opera inherited the "cover" and "circle" of lantern dance, various fan-shaped methods and humorous short pile diagrams in performing arts.