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Gannan tea-picking drama is a local drama that combines Gannan folk oral literature with folk music and dance. It is mainly developed by combining tea songs, lanterns, dragon lanterns, pendulum lanterns and other folk songs and dances with tea-picking lanterns in Anyuan, Du Yu, Ganxian, Xinfeng and Shicheng, and is widely popular in Hakka areas. Ganzhou dialect is currently used in the oral part of Gannan tea-picking drama, which mostly reflects the production and living conditions of working people in rural areas of Gannan, with distinctive local colors and rich life flavor. Mainly comedies and burlesque, humorous and lively style. The music mainly adopts the lantern opera music accompanied by suona and gongs and drums, and the tea picking music mainly played by "hook" (huqin). There are four kinds of tunes: light cavity, road tone and color tone, and the acting is characterized by fan flowers and short flowers.

Gannan has been rich in famous tea since ancient times, and the vast tea areas and villages have become tea-picking songs with folk songs and tea-picking lanterns with folk dances. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, tea-picking songs and lanterns developed into tea-picking dramas in the tea areas around Jiulong Mountain in Anyuan County, and their ancestor drama was Tea Picking in Jiulong Mountain. Therefore, it is commonly known as "Tea Lantern Opera" and "Lantern Opera", and because its role used to be composed of three people (two ugly or ugly), it is also called "Three-legged Opera" and "Triangle Class", which was collectively called tea-picking opera in the middle of the twentieth century.

The stage language of tea-picking drama is local Hakka dialect. It sings and dances, with a relaxed and lively atmosphere, humorous language and strong flavor of life, and integrates folk spoken language, folk songs and dances and lanterns. Most of his plays are comedies and burlesque, and there are few plays and tragedies. The daily life of the people, especially handicraft workers and craftsmen, is the object of expression, in which the love drama between men and women accounts for a large proportion. Its musical aria belongs to Qupai style, mainly composed of tea cavity and lamp cavity, with road cavity and miscellaneous tune, commonly known as "three cavities and one tune". Accompaniment are all folk musical instruments, mainly hook pipe (erhu), suona, gong, drum, cymbal and flute. Characters are usually composed of two women and a man, the woman is called big sister and the man is called tea sound. Of the three, only men (raw or ugly) have costumes, usually wearing hats, three-flowered skirts, white skirts at the waist and bloomers on their feet. During the performance, the two sisters sang, and the tea boy shook the paper fan and gagged. Its dance mainly adopts small steps, fan flowers, single sleeves and imitating animal images. These movements all come from work and life, and their shapes are very unique. Dwarf step: the legs squat forward, the heels are raised, and the toes are forward, which is called "Oriental Ballet". It is created according to the shape when climbing mountains with bent legs and shoulders; Fan flowers are created by picking tea with one hand and fanning the wind with the other hand, and tea is not hidden to ensure the purity of tea; The single sleeve is mainly used to pick tea with the right hand, and the towel with the left hand to wipe sweat and shade the sun, and sometimes it is used as a tea basket to hold tea. The imitation of animal images mainly includes: monkey peeing, monkey washing face, duck fetching water, lazy cat scratching, chicken pecking rice, thrush jumping, turtle scraping sand, dog wagging its tail and so on. Among them, small steps and imitating animal movements are used by clowns to portray characters. It is the most distinctive place and essence of Gannan vegetable tea opera, so it is called "the triangle becomes the play, and the clown is the master"

The content of Gannan tea-picking drama is close to the lives of the working people. Few people, simple scenery. Compared with other traditional Chinese opera programs, it has more vitality, especially its popularity in mountainous areas. There is still a saying in the rural areas of eastern Guangdong that "there is money to pick tea, but no money to buy hats", which means that because of watching tea-picking dramas, all the money to buy hats is lost to artists who perform tea-picking dramas. Since the birth of Gannan, tea-picking drama has been well received by the grassroots, and soon spread to Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and other places, especially in Hakka areas. It has become one of Hakka's favorite forms of opera. According to the Records of Ganzhou Opera, Gannan tea-picking opera was introduced to Fujian and Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty. "Its route, 1, was introduced from southern Jiangxi to western Fujian, and it was divided into two branches: one spread along Wuyi Mountain to eastern Jiangxi, central Jiangxi and northern Jiangxi; The other school "spread to Zhangzhou and Taiwan Province Province, which became one of the basic factors for the formation of Taiwan Province opera" (see "China Opera Records? Fujian roll. 2. It was introduced into southern Hunan and southern Guangxi via eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong.

In recent years, the performance of Gannan Tea-picking Opera Song and Dance Troupe in Beijing has won dozens of individual awards, such as the "Five One Project" Award of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the "Wenhua Award" of the Ministry of Culture.