The music of tea-picking opera in southern Gansu is rich and colorful, with strong plasticity, strong local flavor and distinctive style. According to their different modes, strings and functions, they are divided into four categories: "tea tune", "deng tune", "road tune" and "miscellaneous tune", referred to as "three tunes and one tune".

"Tea tune" is the main tune of tea-picking opera in southern Jiangxi. It has a lively and lively rhythm, beautiful and lyrical melody, and is rich in pastoral and mountainous flavor. For example, the nationally renowned "turtle dove tune", "peony tune", "shoe sole tune", "shangshan tune" and so on.

"Dengqiang" is an important tone of the tea-picking opera. It is high-pitched and vigorous, rough and warm, with ups and downs of melody, relaxed and relaxed, and has a strong flavor of opera. Coupled with the close cooperation of suona and gongs and drums, the atmosphere is fiery and the mood is uplifting.

The "Road Tune" is named after it is adapted to the tunes sung while walking on the road. Its unique liveliness, humor and humor provide a broad scope for the performing arts of tea-picking opera with singing and dancing.

"Za Tiao" is delicate, sweet, exquisite and gorgeous. Although it does not play the main tune in the music of tea-picking opera, it is used interspersed and occasionally appears to embellish the taste, which can often produce unique artistic effects.

In the singing music of tea-picking opera in southern Jiangxi, whether it is tea tune, lamp tune, road tune and miscellaneous tune, lining words are widely used. The lyrics are composed into a jingle: going up the mountain and entering the pit to say "yo hey", going out on the road "na ho hey", making shoe embroidery "oh hey yo", and men and women playing with each other's flowers "pulling." It can be said that any singing is inseparable from the lyrics, and there are even situations where "the lyrics are not enough to match the lyrics".