During the Spring Festival, the stele village of Yongchang Town, Liangzhou District was very lively, and the members of the stele lantern team were performing the lantern dance. Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, the lantern rolling team members put the lamp bowl on their heads, simulating the form of various animals, doing a series of actions such as flipping, rolling and climbing, and the performance is humorous, strong in skill, and has a certain degree of acrobatics.
The Stone Tablet Rolling Lantern Dance is a unique folk dance developed by the villagers of Stone Tablet Village, Yongchang Town, Liangzhou District. In 2007, the stele rolling lantern was included in the first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage protection list of Wuwei City under the name of "Liangzhou Rolling Lantern Dance".
Yongchang stele rolling lamp has a long history, according to the old people in the village, the stele was erected that year, and the rolling lamp began on the fifteenth day of the first month of the following year. The rolling lamp is mainly used to pray for blessings, celebrate the harvest of the year, look forward to the harvest of the next year, and the country and the people, generally composed of 12 people, take the meaning of 12 zodiac, 12 months, the main fancy style is the rolling lamp, the lotus blossom, the willow root and so on. The stele rolling lantern has local characteristics, it is very famous in all directions, and in 1957, it was invited to Zhangye to participate in the exhibition, and was highly praised by the participants. Yongchang stele rolling lamp inheritor Yang Wanhua said.
As a form of folk art, the rolling lanterns in Shibei Village are one of the very popular folk performances during the Chinese New Year. On the first lunar month, the performers wear special costumes, with a bowl on their foreheads, mud in the bowl, wax in the mud, and paper on the edge of the bowl, and the zodiac pattern cut by the local ingenuity, which is a few feet higher than the edge of the bowl. The performers make a virtual bowl with both hands, first circling the field for a few weeks, and then forming a formation. The most distinctive thing is that 12 people tend to the ground together, turn around 360 degrees, the bowl does not fall, and the lights do not go out.
Influenced by the people in the village since I was a child, I like the rolling lantern very much, and I come to study whenever I have free time during the winter and summer vacations, hoping to pass on the intangible cultural heritage of the rolling lantern through our younger generation. Yongchang stele rolling lamp student Nian Yinshan said.
Intangible cultural heritage is a representative and unique cultural phenomenon and expression accumulated in the long history, and it is an excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Yongchang stele people have always been enthusiastic, in the continuous practice of the performance of the rolling lantern excellence, in the oral tradition of the classic culture can be continued, so that the stele rolling lantern shows a unique charm.