In Waga Village, Maling Town, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, a folk acrobatic art passed down from generation to generation by the Buyi people, the Buyi high-platform lion lantern, is passed down. Xingyi City is the seat of Qianxinan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. It is located at the junction of Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi. It is the political, economic, cultural and information center of Qianxinan Prefecture. The city is a low-latitude, high-altitude area with subtropical monsoon humid climate characteristics. Waga Village, Maling Town, is located in the northeast of Xingyi City, 13 kilometers away from the urban area. It has jurisdiction over 5 natural villages, namely Shang Waga, Xia Waga, Huashiban, Wangjiapo and Dengjiapo. The ancient village is surrounded by mountains, and the thousand-year-old banyan tree is intertwined. The dense branches and leaves are like a giant umbrella covering the dam, forming the traditional activity place of Waga high-platform lion lantern. It is said that lion dance was introduced into the Panjiang River Basin during the Eastern Han Dynasty and gradually became popular after the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There is an ancient saying that "the lion that wards off evil spirits leads the way". In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, lion dance activities became more widespread. There is no written record of when the lion dance was introduced to Southwest Guizhou. Because the Buddhist scriptures say that the lion is the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva and has the ability to suppress evil. Therefore, this kind of lion dance activity with religious color in history has been popular in Xingyi for a long time. Many Buyi villages still maintain this activity, forming a lion dance with national characteristics. According to folk artists, the high-platform lion lantern has been circulated in Waga many years ago. They learn to play lions from generation to generation. Generally, they learn to play "monkeys" from the age of six or seven, and then learn various techniques of playing lions. For more than a hundred years, the Waga lion lantern has been passed down from generation to generation and has been passed down to this day. The lion dance was introduced into the Panjiang River Basin during the Eastern Han Dynasty and gradually became popular after the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There is an ancient saying that "the lion that avoids evil spirits leads the way". In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, lion dance activities became more widespread. Lion dance is generally "played on the flat ground", while the Waga Buyi high-platform lion lantern is famous for "going up the high platform". After the stage is set up, the lion head "rounds the stage" and then the performance is performed. The performance is performed by more than 20 people in a set of "miscellaneous faces" (Tang Monk seeking Buddhist scriptures), "big faces" (Sha Monk), a pair of lions, and a pair of monkeys. When performing on the four legs of the high platform, others use "feet touching" (i.e. slowly groping), while the lion lantern artists of Waga use "jumping feet" (i.e. jumping over quickly and accurately). The "music instruments" (i.e. percussion instruments) of the Waga lion lantern are composed of horse gongs, bowls, hall gongs, drums, etc. The playing methods are unique and varied, and there are hundreds of playing methods. The main representative inheritors of the high-platform lion lantern of the Waga Buyi people are Huang Yupei, Cen Zhengao, Wei Chaoji, Huang Lirong, Cen Guoyue, Huang Zhengyi, and Huang Zhixiang. The "Waga Buyi High-Platform Lion Lantern" is a unique national acrobatics that has been gradually formed by the villagers of the Waga Buyi ethnic group in their long-term production and life in the unique natural environment and historical and cultural environment. It has a wide range of mass and folk inheritance, embodies the ancient historical and cultural information of the Buyi people, is rooted in the production and life of the Buyi people, and is closely related to the lives of the Buyi people. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Buyi people. For more than a hundred years, the Waga Buyi High-Platform Lion Lantern has been passed down from generation to generation in the Waga Buyi village. Although it has preserved the ancient acrobatic performance form of the Buyi people and has been named the provincial "Buyi High-Platform Lion Lantern Art Hometown". However, due to the Waga Buyi High-Platform Lion Lantern There are no written records, and the fact that Buyi Gaotai Lion Lantern artists only pass on the art orally and not to outsiders has brought artificial obstacles to the inheritance and development of the Gaotai Lion Lantern, and there are limitations on its spread. With the strengthening of the trend of globalization and the acceleration of the modernization process, the Buyi Gaotai Lion Lantern is restricted by many factors, such as the influence of modern cultural information and the impact of the market economy, and the increase in the mobility of local people. Moreover, this art is a group performance, which makes it difficult to preserve, inherit and develop it in its entirety. At present, there is only one Gaotai Lion Lantern performance team left in Waga Village, and the art of Gaotai Lion Lantern is facing the risk of being lost. Information source: Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Center Information source: Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Center