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Anhui Flower Drum Lantern is a very popular form of song and dance in the Huaihe River Valley of China, especially in the rural areas around Huaibei. According to legend, the earliest flower-drum lanterns were just running in formation, doing a few simple movements and twisting their bodies. Later, when the flooding of the Huaihe River subsided and the crops were abundant, people began to make a big fuss over the flower-drum lanterns. So the Flower Drum Lantern developed from self-entertainment to performance, enriching the dance movements and expressiveness. After the liberation, the beautiful and colorful flower-drum lanterns were once again valued by the dancers, and through continuous exchanges and improvements, the flower-drum lanterns were developed into a stage performance art from the original folk plaza performance form and perfected.

The art of singing and dancing of flower-drum lanterns includes dancing, singing and small plays. There is no dance when you sing, and no song when you dance. In folklore, people give flower-drum lantern artists nicknames such as "Little Golden Lotus", "Little White Shoes", "Flying on the Grass", etc., it is easy to see that the flower-drum lantern dance is very important to pay attention to the work of the feet. Action slip up, brake, put and collect very distinct, both speed, strength of the contrast, but also twisting and tilting, just and soft, static and dynamic contrast. The men in the dance also have to have wonderful somersaults. In Flower Drum Lantern, women are called orchids and men are called drummers. Men and women in the performance is very delicate, handkerchiefs and fans are flower-drum lantern dance performance props, the use of very wonderful, in many of the same props in the Han folk dance is particularly prominent, making it both the north of the strong and simple, but also the south of the flexible and beautiful .

Flower Drum Dance has many genres in folklore. In terms of the circulation of the region and performance style, can be divided into two schools of Feng Huai. Wind school pay attention to the male and female roles of love, action is small and delicate, beautiful and delicate, Huai school pay attention to the action of light and easy, flowing and free.