Gu Lin has always had inconvenient transportation and relatively closed cultural exchanges with the outside world. However, the industrious and simple people of Gu Lin, who are full of hope for life, have not given up their pursuit of life because they live in the depths of the mountains. Instead, they have made full use of Gu Lin Lantern, a group and self-entertaining way of life and entertainment, to enrich their usual entertainment projects and express their feelings and good wishes, which also reflects the harmonious unity of Gu Lin people's material pursuit and spiritual pursuit.

Gu Lin Lantern Festival is centered in Gu Lin and spread in the middle reaches of Chishui River at the junction of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. It is a popular folk song and dance art of Han nationality in Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. It has the performance style of "teasing, laughing, dragging, singing and jumping". Legend originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties and has a history of thousands of years.

Every year from the second day to the eighteenth day of the first month, the street lamp shed in the village walks through the streets to "play lanterns to celebrate the New Year", rap and bless peace. After several generations of inheritance, it is deeply loved by local people, and Gulin County is also known as the "hometown of lanterns". The contents of Gu Lin Lantern Festival include "Happy New Year", "Praise hard work and refuse laziness" and spread justice and morality, but the main content is simple love between men and women in mountainous areas. 2011kloc-0/654381October 0, Gu Lin Lantern was successfully declared as the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Introduction to the artistic features of Gu Lin Lantern Festival;

1, styling features

All kinds of ancient Hualin lanterns have names, such as Guanyin sitting on the lotus platform, dragons and phoenixes turning over, toads drying their bellies, intertwined, Yuanyang spreading their wings, rhinoceros looking at the moon, flowers planting their knees, the sun and the moon reflecting each other, and golden dragons holding columns.

2. Stratigraphic characteristics

The performance of Gu Lin Lantern Festival is held in the "Hall" or the courtyard dam. Due to the limitation of the performance venue, the movements of lanterns are very small, generally there is no big jump or somersault, and the formation has not changed much. Most of them sing in the same place or twist their waists or exchange places between two people. The dance steps are mainly "cross step", "flower tie" and "short man", which flow in the formation of "round disk" and "three flowers".

3, action characteristics

When Gu Lin sang lyrics with lanterns, the dance movements were relatively simple, mainly based on the lyrics. Men and women made some symbolic movements, while the basic movements and various opposites were performed in the sound of gongs and drums.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Lin Lantern