Shangluo Flower Drums, also called Jumping Flower Drums and Dancing Flower Drums, is a kind of Han Chinese folk art that raps in jumping and dancing, therefore, jumping and dancing become one of the most prominent features in the performance of Flower Drums and are carried out throughout the performance of the characters of a Flower Drum. Flower Drum jumping method is diverse, the posture is robust and beautiful, there are jumping, flash jumping, bouncing, twisting jumping, stepping jumping; there are rabbit jumping, sparrow jumping, side jumping, single-legged jumping, double stomping jumping; there are triangular jumping, cross-jumping, the word jumping, inflection jumping, double eight jumping. Although there are a lot of jumps, there is no fixed program for the performances, and the performers give free play to the jumps, making them beautiful, natural, vivid and enjoyable to watch.
The musical structure of Shangluo Flower Drum Opera belongs to a joint song. It organically links up a branch of flower-drum ditties, or use them separately or use several ditties to express the content of the drama, constituting a specific flower-drum opera cantata. Its musical form, according to the content can be divided into three kinds of big tube, eight forks and flower drums. Flower Drum Opera is mainly performed in folk songs and ditties, also known as ditties, reflecting the labor and love life of the local people, with representative plays such as "Ironing", "Playing Straw Shoes", "Brother Receiving Sisters", "Blind Man Touching His Wife", and "Jia Jinlian Going Back to Henan", etc. The Eight Forks Opera is performed in eight forked tunes, also known as eight-forked operas, reflecting the erotic stories of the male son and the female son, and the tunes are divided into two kinds of tunes: the yang bajiao and yin bajiao; the yang bajiao is also known as hard bajiao or big bajiao, and the yin bajiao is also called Big Bajiao, Yin Bajiao also called soft Bajiao or small Bajiao, representative repertoire of "sitting in the west building", "send fragrant tea", "small east building", "small teeth building", etc.; big tube to tube huqin accompaniment, also called tube play, belongs to the flower drums in the large and medium-sized play, more performance of historical stories, folk tales and mythological content, representative repertoire of "blue bridge carrying water", "Liu Hai play golden toad", "blood knife", "ten thousand lifetimes", "Shanbo visit friends", "four", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the". Shanbo Visits Friends", "Four Sisters Come Down to Earth", "King Zhengde Visits the Virtuous", etc. The Shangluo Flower Drums are famous for performing the Three Little Flower Drums. Shangluo Flower Drums are mainly performed in three small plays, in which the youngest, the youngest and the youngest clowns are the main characters, and the performances are vivid and lively, rich in folk colors.