The tea-picking dance was first introduced to Beiliu, Guangxi and the northwest of Xinyi City by immigrants from Jiangxi and other places during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1566). It originated from the tea-picking labor in real life. According to records, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (1875-1908), Mo Wu, an old artist from Xinyi City, performed in Yulin. He added two sections, "worship" and "making tea" before "picking tea in December", making the dance more perfect and popular. Later, it gradually evolved into tea-picking opera. The main tunes of Xinyi City's tea-picking tunes are wooden fish, minor tunes, five-geng tunes, and eighteen sisters. The lyrics in these tunes are generally based on five or seven words, with rhythm, beat, and rhyme. They are smooth to sing, pleasant to the ears, and easy to understand. They are accompanied by percussion instruments such as gongs, drums, and cymbals, accompanied by dance performances, singing and dancing. The themes are selected to be tea-making, tea-picking, tea-making, tea-trading, and tea-selling, which are flexible and diverse. It has a strong local flavor. Later, the musical instruments were more complete, and suona, erhu, qinqin, bamboo flute, etc. were added to the previous gongs, drums, and cymbals. The content was integrated with local folk customs and human feelings, and entertainment was provided during the intervals of work. In the mid-1980s after liberation, the tea-picking tune had new developments, mainly the improvement of the singing tune and the increase of the singing personnel. The singing personnel changed from three people, tea man, tea woman, and employee, to tea man, tea woman, and tea girl. The singing of Xinyi's tea-picking tune consists of several tea-picking girls carrying tea hats, dancing with money rulers, flower fans, and hand towels to visit each household to wish a good harvest in spring tea. Then they sing about opening tea gardens, making tea, picking tea, making tea, selling tea or delivering tea, and are accompanied by dance movements, showing the joy of the harvest, the skills of making tea, and the hard work and happiness of production labor. The whole singing is filled with the youthful and vigorous breath of the tea-country girls, and the flavor of the mountainous countryside that combines suffering with joy, humor and entertainment. After the founding of New China, the tea-picking opera was mainly spread in Chashan, Hongguan, Huaixiang, Zhusha, An'e, Jingkou and other places in the city. In the late 1980s, the Municipal Cultural Center organized personnel to excavate, organize and rehearse the tea-picking opera and perform it in Maoming, Zhanjiang and other places, winning awards and praise. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)