Jiangnan minor tune "Tea Picking Dance", a Zhejiang folk song with lyrics and music by Zhou Dafeng, composed in 1958; it was originally the theme song and dance soundtrack of the modern Yue Opera drama "Song before the Rain", and was later adapted into a dance sketch based on the song "Tea Picking Dance", the whole song is based on the tones of Yue Opera and has a dance style.

"Tea-picking" was originally a folk song and dance genre in China, popular in tea-picking areas in southern my country, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. In the Han area, it is also called "tea song", "tea picking song", etc. The music is light, lively, and the melody is beautiful and smooth, depicting the joyful scene of the simple tea-picking girl picking tea. This tea-picking dance music maintains the basic style of folk tea-picking songs and dances. It adopts the national pentatonic mode and has material of alternating modes. The tune is cheerful and jumping, reproducing the youthful appearance of the tea-picking girl. "Tea-picking Dance" It was extremely popular in the 1950s and had a great social impact.

"Tea Picking Dance" has been performed as a separate program since then. It has also been used as a reserved program by 23 literary and artistic groups including the Central Song and Dance Ensemble, the Central Experimental Song and Dance Ensemble, and the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble. It has become popular in urban and rural areas, and has It has been performed abroad many times and has become the most famous and popular tea song and dance. In 1987, "Tea Picking Dance" was preserved by UNESCO as an outstanding ethnic song and dance in the Asia-Pacific region, and was recommended as music in this region. Textbook. This is the highest honor that China's tea songs and dances have received so far.