What is a tea set?

Tea affairs are mainly popular in Tuolu, Nalong, Zuozhou and other towns in Chongzuo. In the 20th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1894), a tile-making master from Qinzhou went to Zaowa Village in Xu Wei of Tuolu Road to play tiles, taught the people to sing tea-picking operas, and went to other nearby villages such as Bie, Tun, La 'er and Fuliao. 19 18, Lai Fuzhan, an artist among villagers in Chen Na, Yongning County, came to Nalong, Liqun, Zuozhou, Quming and Nongyan villages to teach singing and pick tea. Since then, foreign tea-picking dramas have been introduced to Chongzuo. After four or five generations of preaching, Chongzuo tea-picking drama became popular, and its main theme was to reflect the labor, production, life and love of the Zhuang people.

Tea Story is rehearsed by a tea-picking team organized by local people. The characters are tea people, tea girls, singing partners, scholars or rich people. Before the founding of New China, there were generally no women in the tea-picking team, and "tea girls" were dressed up by actors. Each team usually has about 5 actors. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, women joined the tea-picking team, and the "tea girl" was no longer an actor. The number of actors in each team has also increased to 20-30, and the singing venue has also stepped onto the big stage from performing on bamboo films. Folk tea-picking teams usually perform from the first day of the first month to the first day of February, with the purpose of celebrating the New Year, celebrating the harvest and praying for peace. Tea events include Kaitai tea (tribute tea), milk tea, shisong tea, Laozheng tea, foreign black tea and so on 10.

In the tea party costume, the hero wears a black embroidered headband, a red belt around his waist and black cloth shoes on his feet. Different characters wear different clothes, including white double-breasted jacket, white trousers, blue trousers, red vest or black vest. The underwear vest is inlaid with lines of various colors. The actress wore a red hair band and embroidered shoes. Some people wear pale yellow Zhuang oblique-lined tops and red pleated skirts, while others also wear red long-breasted clothes and blue trousers. There are unicorn, phoenix, flower basket, flower umbrella, colored fan, copper whip and so on. Accompanied by erhu, flute and suona, accompanied by percussion instruments such as gongs, drums and cymbals. With the development of society, tea events have developed from spontaneous organization of the masses to rehearsals and performances of literary and art groups in towns and counties. The tea affair of "Six People Fighting for Golden Flowers" and "Kowloon wagging its tail" won the Excellence Award of the Autonomous Region Cultural Performance in the 1950s and 1960s. 198 1 year later, tea-picking dramas, such as Changing Feng Shui, Green Leaves Helping Flowers and Choosing a Son-in-law, which were adapted by artists, successively participated in the performances of Nanning and autonomous regions. "Green Leaves Help Flowers" also won the third prize of Nanning 1985- 1986 for screenwriter creation. Chongzuo Tea Affairs is still innovating, but its music tunes, performance actions and costume props have maintained their original styles.