The Path Deduction from Folk Art to Stage Art in the Change of Geographical Environment: Take Anhui Flower Drum Lantern as an Example

Anhui flower drum lantern, as a folk dance in the Huaihe River Basin, exudes the local cultural atmosphere and expresses the cultural color of song and dance drama incisively and vividly. At the same time, it is a sacrificial activity with social belief. As a typical example of the development of folk activities in Anhui, it is an important intangible cultural heritage. With the accelerating construction of economic globalization and social innovation, the pursuit of “cultural confidence” has gradually become the belief of a country, a nation, and even everyone. More and more attention is being paid to the protection and dissemination of national intangible cultural heritage. The paper takes Anhui flower drum lamp as the research object, combined with the characteristics of the regional nature, performance form, content, and cultural connotation of Huagu Lantern, by reading the social activities of the people on both sides of the Huaihe River Basin and using literature data, field visits, interviews, logical analysis, and other research methods. The origin, living environment, development historical context, cultural value, existing confusion, and development countermeasures of Huaihe River are analyzed and discussed. This article helps to spread to the people the understanding of the evolution law of the traditional projects with the characteristics of generational attack. At the same time, it is also helpful to grasp the understanding of Hua Gu Deng and the social life, social beliefs, social relations, and other factors on both sides of the Huaihe River. This also make people further understand the social status and value function of the flower drum lantern along the Huai River and it is of great practical significance to the dissemination of the same type of intangible cultural heritage.