The tea-picking dance is mainly popular in villages and towns such as Tuolu, Nalong, and Zuozhou in Chongzuo. In the 20th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1894), a tile-making master from Qinzhou went to Zaowa Village in Tuolu to make tiles, and taught the people to sing the tea-picking opera. He also taught in the nearby Gengbie, Tun Village, Genglan, and Fuliao villages. In 1918, Lai Fuzhan, a folk artist from Nachen Village in Yongning County, came to Nalong, Qunli, Zuozhou, Quming, and Nongyan Village to teach singing tea-picking. Since then, tea-picking operas from other places have begun to be introduced to Chongzuo. After 4 or 5 generations of preaching, the tea-picking opera in Chongzuo has become popular, and its content is mainly based on the labor production, life, and love of the Zhuang people. The tea-picking dance is rehearsed by the tea-picking team organized by the local masses, and the characters played include tea masters, tea girls, singing companions, scholars, or rich people. Before the founding of New China, there were generally no women in the tea-picking team, and the "tea girls" were dressed by male actors. There are generally about 5 actors in each team. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, women joined the tea-picking team. The "tea girl" was no longer played by male actors. The number of actors in each team increased to 20-30 people. The performance venue changed from performing on a bamboo sheet to a big stage. Folk tea-picking teams usually perform from the first day of the first lunar month to the early February, with the purpose of celebrating the new year with tea, celebrating the harvest, and praying for peace. There are more than 10 performance forms of tea-picking dance, such as Kaitai tea (gongcha), Naicha, Shisongcha, Laozhengcha, and Yanghongcha. The costumes of the tea-picking dance are that the male actors wear black embroidered headbands, red belts around their waists, and black cloth shoes. Different roles wear different costumes, including white double-breasted tops, white trousers, blue trousers, red vests or black vests, etc., and the clothes, trousers and vests are all inlaid with various colored threads. Female actors wear red headbands and embroidered shoes. Some wear light yellow Zhuang slanted-collar tops and red pleated skirts, while others wear red large-collared shirts and blue trousers. The props used in the tea-picking dance include unicorns, phoenixes, flower baskets, flower umbrellas, colorful fans, and copper coin whips. The accompaniment instruments are mainly erhu, flute, and suona, accompanied by percussion instruments mainly including gongs, drums, and cymbals. With the development of society, the tea-picking dance has developed from the original spontaneous organization of the masses to rehearsals and performances by township and county art groups. The tea-picking dances of "Six People Fighting Golden Flowers" and "Nine Dragons Wagging Their Tail" participated in the autonomous region's art performances in the 1950s and 1960s and won the Excellence Award. After 1981, the tea-picking dramas "Changing Feng Shui", "Green Leaves Supporting Flowers", and "Selecting Sons-in-law" adapted by artists have successively participated in the Nanning region and the autonomous region's art conferences. "Green Leaves Supporting Flowers" also won the third prize for script creation in Nanning in 1985-1986. The Chongzuo tea-picking dance is still innovating, but its music tunes, performance movements, costumes and props have all maintained the original style. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)