What are the performance characteristics of Gannan tea-picking drama?

The main musical instrument in Gannan tea-picking drama is "Hook Copper", with positive and negative strings, which is sung in Hakka dialect and Ganzhou Mandarin. There are about 300 songs.

Besides music, it can best show the characteristics of Gannan tea-picking drama. At the beginning of its performance, it paid equal attention to song, dance and drama. Its performance characteristics can be summarized as "three wonders and three wonders".

The three wonders are: the traditional tea-picking drama shows all the love and labor of the working people at the lower level, and there is no court dance and talented person and beautiful woman dance, which is surprising; A large number of performers imitate animal movements and are named after animal movements, which is the second wonder; Song and dance dramas go hand in hand, so that some people think that it is a local song and dance drama, and it is a three-stop.

The three musts are: small step, single sleeve and fan flower.

The basic footwork of small step includes small step, high step, small step stride, shaking step, surprised step, sliding step and shovel step. Short steps are divided into short piles, medium piles and high piles. This is the only small step in the world drama.

Single sleeve is another skill. Generally speaking, the sleeves in the drama are all in pairs, which are very gentle, but in Tea Affairs, there is only one left sleeve, but Gannan has created many dance terms, such as grasping sleeves, draped sleeves, back sleeves, sun-shading sleeves, fan sleeves, underarm sleeves, phoenix-tailed sleeves, needle sleeves, flower basket sleeves, throwing, throwing, waist-wrapping, knee-wrapping, and so on.

Fan flower is an important means to embody the artistic style of tea-picking song and dance performance. There are many kinds of actions to fan flowers, including swinging fan, folding fan, avoiding fan, sunshade fan, overlooking fan, smelling flower fan and covering face fan.