Longyan Tea Picking Lantern Folk Song and Dance Performance

Longyan tea-picking lantern is a traditional folk art form in Longyan, Fujian Province, and it is also one of the intangible cultural heritages in Fujian Province. Tea-picking lanterns are performed during the Lunar New Year, usually by a team of dozens of artists.

In the tea-picking lantern performance in Longyan, performers dressed in gorgeous national costumes and holding colored lights danced with the accompaniment of music and songs. In the performance, picking tea, weighing tea, frying tea and beating are often the themes, and the dancers are transformed into tea pickers, tea farmers, tea merchants and other roles, vividly demonstrating the importance of tea culture in local life.

In addition to singing and dancing performances, Longyan tea-picking lanterns also include various special performances such as clay pills, bear horns and cinnabar skills. Among them, the performance of Mud Pills is very characteristic. Performers need not only skill, but also courage and agility. They make mud into small balls, throw them into the air and pick them up again.

Longyan tea-picking lantern is not only a representative art of local culture, but also an important entertainment activity for local villagers to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, citizens and tourists will get together to watch the performance of tea-picking lanterns and feel the charm of intangible culture.