Ziyang Folk Song Festival

Shaanxi
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A folk song art activity organized spontaneously by the masses. It is usually held on the night of the Spring Festival. Ziyang folk song community fire is also called playing with lanterns. It is a general term for various juggling art forms such as lion dance, colorful lotus boat, dragon dance, stilt walking, ground jumping, etc. It is divided into several stages: lighting, playing with lanterns, lying on lanterns and burning lanterns. The lighting ceremony is actually a preview of all the programs; when playing with lanterns, the program is performed in a certain order, and the lyrics are mostly jingles composed of auspicious words; when each family plays to the last family, they lie down on the lantern, and the performance will continue from this family the next night; burning lanterns is when the lantern playing activity ends, the lamps used for performance are collectively cremated, announcing the end of the community fire activities this year.

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