Music Research on Tea Picking Opera of Southern Jiangxi von Fenglong Fan

Tea Picking Opera of Southern Jiangxi Province has a history of more than 300 years and is known as "a wonderful flower in the garden of Chinese operas". "Picking tea" originated from the wisdom of the working people. It is a folk art with a long history. The ancient traditional Qupai "tea picking song" was included in the literature as early as the Tang Dynasty. Before the Qing Dynasty, this Qupai had been widely spread. Tea Picking Opera is an important part of excellent traditional Chinese culture. It is a kind of traditional opera popular in the area south of the Yangtze River and some provinces and regions south of the Five Ridges. Tea Picking Opera in Jiangxi is particularly common, such as "Pingxiang Tea Picking Opera", "Fuzhou Tea Picking Opera", "Nanchang Tea Picking Opera", etc. Among the many tea picking operas in Jiangxi, Tea Picking Opera of Southern Jiangxi is the most representative one. It was in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. The book is in line with the national policy and strategic intention of the development of cultural industry.