Tea-picking drama first appeared in Jiulongshan tea area of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province.

Tea-picking drama first appeared in Jiulongshan tea area in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province (Anyuan County).

Gannan tea-picking drama first appeared in Jiulongshan tea area in Anyuan, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Gannan tea-picking drama is one of the local traditional dramas and national intangible cultural heritages in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Gannan tea-picking opera, commonly known as "Camellia Lantern Opera" and "Lantern Opera", has the reputation of "the flower of Hakka art", which originated in Jiulongshan District, Anyuan County, Jiangxi Province and has a history of about 400 years.

Gannan tea-picking drama is a local traditional drama in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. It first appeared in Jiulong Mountain, Anyuan County, Gannan City, Jiangxi Province, with a history of more than 300 years. Tea-picking drama in southern Jiangxi is based on Jiulong Tea Lantern, which absorbs local folk art in southern Jiangxi and is mainly popular in southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong and western Fujian.

Characteristics of Gannan tea-picking drama;

Gannan tea-picking drama has experienced three stages from gestation to formation: tea-picking song, tea basket lamp and tea-picking drama. Tea-picking songs originated in the Ming Dynasty and were widely sung in the south of the Yangtze River with the tea trade. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a "tea market" and a tea basket lantern performance. Later, on the basis of tea basket lamp and "triangle class", the form of tea-picking drama was gradually formed.

Gannan tea-picking drama is one of the national intangible cultural heritages and a local traditional drama in Ganzhou, with a history of more than 3,000 years. Tea-picking drama in Gannan was formed under the background of diverse Hakka culture. The music core of Hakka tea things, folk songs and small town tea-picking drama belongs to Legato style.