The tea basket lantern is a dance form performed by the Hakka people in southern Jiangxi. Hakka people sing tea songs while picking tea. The earliest tea song is "Tea Picking Song in December". Singing from the first month to the twelfth month is called "Shuncha Picking Tea", singing from the end of the twelfth month to the first month of the year is called "Backward Picking Tea", singing from the end of the twelfth month to the beginning of the first month is called "Four Seasons Tea", singing from spring, summer, autumn and winter is called "Four Seasons Tea". As the singing and development of tea songs, Hakka people added the movements of picking and plucking tea, borrowed the forms of horse lanterns, dragon lanterns and lion dances that were popular in the tea-growing areas at that time, and developed the tea basket lantern that can be performed with singing and dancing. The appearance of tea basket lanterns was quickly accepted by the Hakka people. During festivals or when tea mountains opened, tea basket lanterns were used to liven up the atmosphere and were very popular. Later, based on the tea basket lanterns, Hakka artists combined the actions of going up the mountain, entering the pit, and crossing the bridge with the plot of labor in the tea mountains, and used hoes, tea baskets, and towels as props. The original "Twelve Months Tea Picking Song" with twelve tea girls and two male team leaders was reduced to two girls and one boy, with the girls being the eldest sister and the second sister, and the boy being the tea boy. The original singing by one person and the chorus of the others was changed to a short play "Sisters Picking Tea" with singing and dancing, sisters singing duets, and tea boys waving paper fans and making jokes. At the same time, a short play called "Bench Dragon" was compiled based on the life interests of Hakka children, with the eldest sister, the second sister, and the third son playing with a bench. As a result, the "two female and one ugly" triangle play stood out from the mother womb of the tea basket lantern in the late Ming Dynasty. In the mid-twentieth century, it was collectively called the tea picking play.