1. In the rural areas around Yancheng and Funing, there have been witchcraft activities in history, including: praying for a bumper harvest and opening a young seedling meeting; Extend happiness and eliminate disasters, be a Taiping meeting, a Mars meeting, etc. With the change of history, this kind of performance has been enriched continuously, and after a long period of evolution, it has gradually developed into a incense play.

2. Incense drama is a local drama closely related to folk belief in ghosts and gods, also known as Sangangzi and Sanzizi, which was finally formed around the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862). Its singing is composed of incense popular in China and Huai Bangzi popular in Huaiyin and Baoying. At the same time, incense artists often join hands with gate artists, so many tunes in incense plays come from gate valves.

3. Yancheng is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and one of the 27 cities in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta. It is located in the eastern coast of China, in the middle of Jiangsu Province, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, Nantong in the south, Yangzhou and Taizhou in the southwest, Huai 'an in the northwest and Lianyungang across the Guanhe River in the north.