Lianhuadu means Lotus Flower Drop is a kind of Han Chinese song art with both rap and singing.
Lotus Drop, also known as Lotus Flower Alarm, Lotus Flower Music, Drop Zi, Lotus Flower Board, etc., has been passed down for more than nine hundred years.
"Bamboo dragons and the water dragon boat, fight clever competition color fresh, laugh at the east of the city Wang Laozi, listen to the people sing fall away from the lotus." Fu Zhengsheng opened the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi version of the "Xinjian County Records", read the poem, told reporters that the poem "fall away from the lotus" that is "lotus flower fall".
Historical allusion:
Fu Zhengsheng was the deputy director of the cultural center of Xinguan County, Jiangxi Province, is a member of the China Library Association, Jiangxi Province, a member of the Mass Culture Society. Talking about Xinguan "Lotus Flower Drops", this old man who has been engaged in cultural work for 38 years is always full of feelings.
What is the "Lotus Flower Drop", Fu Zhengsheng found a branch, above the tie on some red paper, while shaking it, said, in fact, "Lotus Flower Drop" is the local blind play, historically, are blind beggars singing opera, the content is mainly persuade The content is mainly persuade the world text, promote good and punish evil, karma, worship alms, auspicious mouth color.
Because the blind worship Buddha from the good, and the lotus flower is a symbol of Buddhism, the blind singing is mostly two people a team, a singing a gang, each hand holding an evergreen tree branches, decorated with many red paper flowers, for the "lotus", between the branches of the line string Ming money, used to shake, "shivering, shivering! "sound, to help beat the beat, so the name "Lotus Drop", also known as the drop away from the lotus or money tree.
Over time, people only know the blind theater and forget the original name of the song "Lotus Drop". In order to avoid the blind, a little more civilized people will be renamed as photon play, therefore, "Lotus Drop" and the "photon play" name.