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Tea-picking operas in Jiangxi including branches in east, south, west and north is another emerging opera genre, closely related with folk song and ditty, especially tea-picking opera in Qupai style so far. Wuning tea-picking opera as one of excellent local operas in Jiangxi Province and provincial level intangible cultural heritage keeps strong local flavor and specializes in expressing modern life. 1. Brief introduction of Wuning tea-picking opera 1.1 Artistic characteristics of Wuning tea-picking opera Wuning tea-picking opera as one of four Han people's opera genres in Jiangxi province has formed unique style and strong local flavor under the influence of local regional features, national custom and simple folk culture. Wuning tea-picking opera centered in Wuning widely spreading and covering Xiushui, Ruichang, Yongde, De'an, Jiujiang, Fengxin, Jing'an, Tonggu in Jiangxi, and Yangxin, Tongshan, Daye, Huangmei, Wuxue county in Hubei, is one of cultural and entertainment activities active and exhibited in local areas. Especially in Tang and Song dynasty, Wuning black tea was well known at home. At the time of Emperor Kangxi in Qing dynasty, tea planting and tea picking were prevailing customs. The folk song "It drizzles during time of Ching Ming, people are busy with rice transplanting and tea picking" has truly reflected the laboring condition of people in Northern Jiangxi at that time. Tea picking as a labor act evolves into a relaxed and joyful collective labor and entertainment activity after containing art, melody, leisure, entertainment and fitness. In special festival or time in rural areas such as at the time of widespread tea tress in March and harvesting, people sing in the tea forest with the joy of harvesting. Mountain songs and ditties sang by them are in vivid form and rich contents expressing the joy of labor and love between men and women. Some are short, some are long songs for storytelling and narration. After a series of evolution of speaking, singing, dancing and playing, it finally forms a complete and unique art form, which is Wuning tea-picking opera in the bud. 1.2 Evolution and development of Wuning tea-picking opera Wuning tea-picking opera was developed from the tea-picking songs of people who pick tea-leaf with the movement form from tea-picking dancing after artists' creation and innovation characterized with local Wuning features. Wuning located in Mufu mountainous area is rich in tea-leaf. As tea-picking songs prevail, tea-picking playlet has formed gradually, called "Sanjiaoban". Wuning tea-picking opera spread to Hunan, Hubei and other places in Jiangxi earlier in Emperor Qianlong of Qing dynasty, and developed with unique characteristics after artists' recreation and innovation. Wuning tea-picking opera was influenced greatly by Jiangxi in terms of folk style, culture and education due to the location facing to Yangxin, Huangmei of Hubei province, so similar tea-picking opera emerged. The elevation and development of Wuning tea-picking opera has promoted cultural, artistic and educational exchange and development in perimeter zones. Tea-picking opera in Huangmei and Yangxin and tea-picking opera in northern Jiangxi influence each other and constantly enrich the aria and performance art, and greatly enrich the opera genre and artistic expression mode 2017 International Conference on Humanities, Arts and Language (HUMAL 2017) Copyright © (2017) Francis Academic Press, UK 246 respectively. Wuning tea-picking opera started rapid development at the time of the emerging of two genres, Shanghe genre and Xiahe genre. It is divided into the upstream and downstream of Xiuhe River divided by living cluster area, with the outstanding feature that, tea-picking opera in upstream emphasizes performance art but the downstream stresses the art of singing technique. So there establish their own unique styles respectively. Meanwhile, both influenced by the essence of Hubei Han Opera, they have enriched original performance techniques and artistic expression mode, with some acrobatic fighting action integrated, such as "Xunyang Le", "Wyning Dao Guang Zhi", and "Tea-picking in December" with complete expression forms of Sheng, Dan, Qie, Jing, Mo and Chou roles. Evolvement and development of Wuning tea-picking opera contains following stages: (1) from tea song to light drama, represented by "Xunyang Le" and "Tea picking in December", "Sister-in-laws pick tea"; (2) from dilemma to rebirth, represented by "Qijie down to earth", "Children's marriage"; (3)Sunset glow in Mufu Mountain, represented by "Poor Cuihua", "Wujin Ji", "Yu Chenglong's private visit";(4) edit art features, represented by "Shi Yin Pei", "Gua Pao Ji", "Qiao Mai Ji", "Gao Qian Liang"; more than 100 selected scenes such as "Sister-in-laws pick tea", "Dadidquanfu, "Raro digging", "Yangmai", "Bansun"; (6) Honors. "Banger shengsheng" awarded silver prize, organization reward and screenwriting reward in the first National Boxing Playset Art Festival, the first award in international stage. 49 opera genres, 64 plays participated in the first National Boxing Playset Art Festival. Most plays were performed by national and provincial level troupes. Some are national-level first grade performers awarded Plum Blossom Prize and Wenhua Prize. "Banger shengsheng" is the only play performed by county level cultural center, as well as the only playset performed by Wuning. Wuning tea-picking opera was originated earliest from tea songs in northern Jiangxi. Most musical materials are from local people, closely related with dialects, thus it has strong local features. 2. Analysis on the basic components of Wuning tea-picking opera Wuning tea-picking opera is rich in its music. According to the legend, there are nine ban and eighteen qiang. Nine ban refer to Daoban, Menban, Yaoban, Erliuban, Kuaiban (huogong), Jiban, Sankuban, Shuban eighteen qiang refer to Beiqiang (Chaqiang, Huqiang), Hanqiang (Xianqiang), Tanqiang, Shanghe Sipingqiang, Xiahe Sipingqiang, Mansi Pingqiang, Maiqiang, Duikouqiang, Dongluohunqiang, Caiqiang, Daoqingqiang, Boqiang, Gaoqiang. Other qubai music and beat music are important components. So the music includes four parts: Zhengqiang, Zadiao, Qupai and Beat.

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