What are the performances of Jiujiang tea-picking drama?

The traditional drama of Jiujiang tea-picking opera is known as "thirty-six books and seventy-two small books". There are few historical court plays in his large-scale plays, mostly folk stories or fairy tales, including White Fan, Bloody Clothes, Selling Water, Yuezhou Capital, Cynomorium, Street Breeze, Lingzhuizi, Chopper, Seven Needles, Buckwheat and Phoenix.

Jiujiang tea-picking plays are mostly small plays reflecting family life and labor production, such as selling shoes, horn reeds, dyeing aprons, planting wheat, mending the back, borrowing money, selling cotton yarn, bitter daughter-in-law, persuading sister-in-law and selling garlic. Small plays that reflect the intelligence of working people, such as Letter from Ge Ma, Tiebanqiao, and Fortune-telling for the Blind.

The modern repertoires created and performed after the founding of New China are: Lingxiang Shengshi, Mailiang Storm, Letter from Beijing, etc.

Jiujiang tea-picking drama is unpretentious and has a strong flavor of life, especially in some small dramas. In "Sending Mooncakes", Xiao Dan's handkerchief is thrown high and spinning, playing with flowers back and forth; The clown's bench skill of dyeing apron is agile and dexterous, and he can jump freely.

Yang Kaixian, an old artist, plays Xiao Dan and Zhang Er in the tram. Her performances such as climbing mountains, going downhill, jumping pits and crossing bridges are vivid. His performances, such as Xiao Dan's broken steps and the clown's small steps, are also very distinctive.