The organizational form of Tujia lanterns is both fixed and flexible. Each Tujia cottage has a fixed lantern team, a relatively fixed rehearsal place, neat costume props, and a special person in charge, and each has its own special program, which can come at the drop of a hat. Before liberation, these organizations were called Lantern Festival, with the heads of families or long-term leaders as their presidents. After the founding of New China, commonly known as amateur lantern team, village cadres served as the team leader, without any remuneration, and all the income from playing lanterns was used for self-construction.
Sinan Tujia Lantern Music has strong national customs and local characteristics. Tunes are divided into four categories: light tone, normal tone, murmur and minor, and there are 24 categories of traditional tunes. Because Tujia lanterns have many tunes, different styles and different local characteristics, there is a saying that Tujia lanterns "don't cross the village, don't cross the slope and don't cross the boundary". Tujia Lantern Music has fewer traditional accompaniment instruments, but rich qupai. Traditional musical instruments include Ma Gong, Gong, Erhu, Yueqin, Sanxian and Yi Zhe Drum. The gongs and drums are humorous and lively. The gongs they use are bigger and thicker than ordinary gongs, with solid and loud voice, strong broadcasting ability, pungent and enthusiastic, and can give people an optimistic and solid feeling when attacking. The horsemen used are crisp, sharp, beautiful and have a sense of jumping. Commonly used gongs and drums are "single five", "double five", "phoenix nodding", "eagle flapping its wings", "cow scratching", "horse biting cow", "long road eye", "hanging gourd with gold thread" and "harmony". Huatianba
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Wujiang sour fish
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rice tofu
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Lamb meal
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Mung bean powder
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