Guizhou Lantern Opera is a traditional opera in China, which is developed on the basis of the lantern dance spread in the Han nationality areas and some ethnic mixed areas in Guizhou Province. Guizhou folk lantern dance has a long history. According to local chronicles from Kangxi to Daoguang years in Qing Dynasty, lantern dances were popular in Fuquan, Zunyi and Kaiyang at that time. Every Lantern Festival, all kinds of paper lanterns are put up, and children make up, sing and play music, which is called "Lantern Festival", or male makeup Tang Er, female makeup lazy sister-in-law, holding towel fans, and both dance, which is called ". 19 15 "Weng' an county annals and customs chapter" contains "asking zaju", which shows that there has been a lantern show at the latest. Guizhou Lantern Opera has different names in the province: northern Guizhou and western Guizhou are called "Lantern Clip Opera"; Dushan area is called "desk lamp"; Sinan and Yinjiang are called "Gao Tai Opera" or "Lantern Opera".

Guizhou Lantern is a treasure in Guizhou folk art, and it is also the most popular local drama in Guizhou province. At first, the performance form of Lantern Opera was relatively simple, mainly performing folk operas, and the themes were mostly rural life and folk stories, such as New Year greetings, sisters watching flowers, visiting relatives three times, Liu Sanmei carrying water, and cows stopping his wife.