Jiamu Festival Lantern Opera is recorded in Jiamu county annals that Festival Lantern Opera origins from the Ming Dynasty. It is local opera that populates in South Hu'nan and has nearly 200 repertories most of which reflect the labor people's happiness, sadness, sorrow and joy, and their fighting against tyrannical and lord, as well as exposing and criticizing feudal society, so it has certain educational meaning. Festival Lantern Opera is characterized by simple structure in art, focused plot, homeliness language, fun and humor, profound local color, imbued with a strong smack of labor life, and easily acceptable by the laboring people. |