The world's outstanding folk song "Dragon Boat Tune" is adapted from Lichuan Lantern Song "Planting Melon Tune".
Lichuan Lantern Song is a folk singing form with colorful dragon boats as props for Tujia people on holidays in Lichuan. It developed in the early Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years. In the late Qing Dynasty, lantern songs became more and more popular in Lichuan. There were many kinds of lanterns, such as "the first eight out", "the last eight out" and "miscellaneous lamps". Guadiao is sung in Baiyang, Moudao and Wang Ying in Lichuan City, Enshi Prefecture, southwest Hubei Province. Lichuan is known as the hometown of dragon boat melody.
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Lichuan is located in the southwest border of Hubei, with Sichuan and Chongqing in the west, Enshi in the east, Xiaoxiang in the south, Three Gorges in the north and four counties and two districts in Chongqing. Lichuan is the largest and most populous county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, with fertile land and rich products. Known as "Silver Lichuan" and "Hometown of Gong Mi", it has been "Yichuan" and "Yidu" since ancient times.
The city covers a total area of more than 4,600 square kilometers, with a width of 92 kilometers from east to west and a length of 105 kilometers from north to south, and governs 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships. The total population is 9 13700, of which Tujia and Miao ethnic minorities account for 59.2%.
Lichuan is the hometown of Dragon Boat Tune, one of the world's outstanding folk songs. Lichuan has successively won the titles of China Folk Cultural Heritage Tourism Demonstration Zone, National Cultural Advanced County and City, China Song and Dance Hometown, China Poetry Couplet Hometown, Top Ten Shuxiang County and City, Hubei Writers Association Creation Base and Hubei Photography Hometown.