The old folk artist introduced to us that The Lantern Opera resembled the lantern, drama and dance, main music is "DengXianDiao" (also known as "fat barrel") with local color, people also called it "peasant drama", "dam play", which was full of earthy scent in village of northern Sichuan.

The traditional Lantern Opera was performed along the courtyard and street in the evening, the audience were farmers, they took their lantern and torch, enclosing the stadium to watch, stadium was merged into a sea of lanterns, so it was named Lantern Opera, there is nobody take lantern and torch now. An abnormal dazzling main lantern was hung in the center of stadium, which was painted with flowers, birds, beasts, figures in four corners or dazzlingly beautiful lanterns were written with "a bumper grain harvest"," the domestic animals are all thriving.", "the land yield good harvests and the people enjoy good health", "Wish you a fortune", the actors were taking lantern, dancing with lantern and jumping with lantern, dragon lantern, lion lantern, crow lantern or Clam shell lantern which were appeared in the show were not only props and sophisticated folk crafts, but also the roles in the show. The audience looked lantern show called" watching Lantern Opera", actor performed lantern show called "Bandeng". It was spectacular that the actors and audience were blended together and transported with joy.