“花灯”,又名“玩灯”,这是一种在竹技(笛子)词基础上发展提高的载歌载舞的小演唱艺术。据《续修永定县志·艺术》载,花灯是大庸土家人民在长期的文化生活中,吸收了“巴渝文化”中的某些歌舞、戏曲方面的精华,结合本地的表演艺术,长期提炼形成的。 花灯,通常是在春节,尤其是元霄佳节之时,以一丑一旦(由两名少男或两名少女扮演)为中心,由数人掌灯、伴奏、协唱,既可登台又可在堂前院中表演。表演者各执一扇,翩翩起舞,伴奏者用笛子、二胡、锣鼓相伴或相间演奏,其音调悠扬,节奏明快。每 “Lantern”, also known as “playing lamp”, is a small singing and dancing performing art which develops and improves on the basis of bamboo technique (flute). According to the “renewal of the art of Yongding County,” the lantern is the people of the Dayong Tu nationality in the long-term cultural life that absorbed some of the best songs, dances and operas in the “Bayu Culture,” combined with the local performing arts, Forming. Lantern, usually in the Spring Festival, especially in the XiaoxiaoXiao Festival, with an ugly once (by two boys or two girls play) as the center, by the number of palm lights, accompaniment, singing, both on stage and in front of the Church Hospital performances. The performers hold a fan, dance, accompanist with a flute, erhu, percussion accompany or play each other, its melodious, fast paced. each