The three names of Nanchang tea-picking opera

Tea Picking Song

Tea Basket Light Song

Nanchang Tea Picking Opera is one of the representative Jiangxi Tea Picking Operas, which is the ancestor of the Chinese Tea Picking Opera, and it is mainly originated in the area of Xinfeng and Anyuan in Gannan. "Gannan has a long history of flourishing tea affairs." It is said that in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, famous tea was listed as tribute in Gannan, and the folk all sang and danced for the prosperous tea affairs. As we all know, in tea production, the first process is tea picking. In the green mountains and bright spring light, people labor while singing songs, both to eliminate fatigue, but also express the feelings, "tea picking song" thus came. Tea-picking songs and folk dance is combined in many years later, the New Year, with a variety of folk lanterns in the countryside performance, that is, the formation of tea-picking lantern show, which is the earliest prototype of the tea-picking opera. The tea-picking song sung in the tea-picking lantern opera is "December tea-picking song", which mainly has three forms: one is "Shun tea-picking", sung from the first month to December; the second is "inverted tea-picking", sung from December to the first month; the third is "inverted tea-picking", sung from December to the first month; the third is "inverted tea-picking", sung from December to the first month. December to the first month; three is the "Four Seasons Tea", which is sung in the spring, summer, fall and winter of the year. Singing, the dancers sing "tea song", hand-held "tea basket" as props, singing and dancing, thus forming its own unique style of tea-picking lantern theater, commonly known as "tea basket lamp song.