What are the characteristics of Nanchang tea-picking opera?

Nanchang Tea Picking Opera is one of the representative Jiangxi Tea Picking Operas, while Jiangxi Tea Picking Opera is the originator of Chinese Tea Picking Opera, which 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. When singing, the dancers sing "tea songs" and carry "tea baskets" as props, singing and dancing, thus forming a tea-picking lantern opera with its own unique style, commonly known as "Tea Basket Lantern Song".　After the formation of Gannan Tea Picking Opera, it was divided into several ways to develop outward, except for the branches formed in Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Gui provinces and districts, in Jiangxi Province, it formed the five major genres of Gandong, Ganxi, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan, Gannan and Gannan. Nanchang Tea Picking Opera belongs to the northern Gan school, which has a history of more than 170 years, originating from the tea picking lantern opera with songs and dances, singing the "December Tea Picking Song" and various folk tunes, and starting and developing with Nanchang and Xinjian counties as the center.　According to historical records, the end of the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the tea-picking opera evolved from the lights into opera. Qing Dynasty in the Guangxu years, Nanchang tea-picking opera in Nanchang Wo port start class. At that time, the repertoire was mostly played by "two small" (clowns, small Dan), such as "climbing bamboo shoots", "selling cotton yarn" and so on. Afterwards, with the needs of the plot, "two small" gradually developed into "three small" (clown, small Dan, small student), such as "under the Nanjing", "selling flowers line", etc., so the folk commonly known as tea light for "triangular class Therefore, it is commonly called "Triangle Class" in folklore. Later, this performance is not limited to the performance of tea, but the emergence of a large number of performance of daily life content of the small drama, to this point, "half class" was therefore announced the birth. "Half class" has been basically formed for the size of the tea-picking opera troupe, there are ten or twenty people, costumes, props and orchestra, has been able to stage almost a complete variety of plays, so it is very popular among the people in the countryside.