Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the vast majority of ancestors in the southern part of Lu'an played with lanterns and sang lantern songs all night long from the 15th day of the first lunar month to the 2nd day of the second lunar month, and this tradition has been passed down to this day. Lantern songs can be performed in the following forms: lion lanterns, boat lanterns, car lanterns, donkey lanterns, five-horse broken trough lanterns, big-headed doll lanterns, flower baskets, etc. Its biggest feature (and the biggest difference from the northern flower drum lanterns) is that it is mainly based on singing, and it wins by improvising oral creation. This project has collected more than 2,000 traditional and modern lantern song lyrics. Lantern song tunes have formed different singing schools during their spread, such as Huoshan tune, Lu'an tune, Shucheng tune and various coloratura minor tunes (music scores are attached to the application form). The general procedure of lantern song singing is: first sing a humble song at the beginning, sing a praise couplet song when entering the house, sing a fortune song when asking for rewards, sing the main song in conjunction with the words in the middle (the singer should sing a lantern song with a long conjunction), and sing a thank-you song when turning to the transition (see the "Basic Content" column for examples). The "character-splitting song" in Lu'an Lantern Song is a unique and wonderful flower in folk oral literature. Its singing method is that the host uses silver dollars or copper coins to place auspicious four-character phrases on a red lacquer plate, such as "a ten thousand profits", and asks the old lantern singers with extremely high oral creation ability to use the method of improvisation to split the words one by one until the four characters are split. Then use the same singing method to return the four-character auspicious phrases, such as "four seasons bring wealth" to the host (see the "basic content" column for examples). Lu'an Lantern Song has been passed down to this day, and has undergone great development and innovation in both form and content. It has moved from rural areas to cities and has become a must-have literary and artistic feast for major festivals and important meetings in urban areas.