Phoenix Dance (also known as Phoenix Playing with Peasants) is a folk lantern dance handed down by the Wan family in Xiajia Village, Chengbei Subdistrict Office, Yushui District (formerly Shatu Township). The dance was originally a palace lantern dance, originated in the early Ming Dynasty, and was introduced to the Wan family during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, about 300 years ago. According to the "Xinyu County Annals" and the ancient genealogy of the Wan family, when Wan Faxiang, a Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, an editor of the Hanlin Academy and a military official, returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, he was granted permission by the emperor to bring the full set of Phoenix Dance (dancers, bands, props) back to his hometown Xiajia Village for performance, and taught the performance essentials of the lantern dance, band performance skills and prop making technology to the young people of the Wan family. Therefore, people also call the "Phoenix Dance" "Wanjia Phoenix". After the Phoenix Dance was introduced to the Wan family, it has been continuously processed and evolved by artists and has now developed into the dragon and phoenix lantern dance that brings auspiciousness. Phoenix Dance is a folk lantern dance that is popular among the masses and has strong local characteristics. It can be performed in squares, streets, and is also suitable for stage performances. It has a festive and warm style, vivid scenes, and meticulous and exquisite skills. It has become a traditional program for Xinyu people to pray for good weather and a happy life, and has been passed down to this day. Since Wanjia, Xiajia Village, is located in the urban area, most of the young and middle-aged people are busy with their careers in the city, and the old artists are old, some have passed away one after another, and due to various reasons such as the restriction of not passing on skills to outsiders, Phoenix Dance has been recorded and included in the "Jiangxi Volume of the Collection of Chinese National Folk Dances". Until the early 1990s, it had never been performed for nearly 20 years and was on the verge of being lost. In 2008, with the attention and support of the district party committee and government, and after many efforts by the cultural department, the inheritors Wan Farui and Wan Shuisheng were mobilized to teach the props making and performance skills of the lantern dance to the young people of the ethnic group, and the Phoenix Dance, an ancient and precious folk lantern dance, was able to shine again.