In fact, the story lines in Taiwan are even more focused than that-in every work of three-part tea-picking opera that plays anywhere on the island, the story revolves around a particular sojourn by a man named Zhang Sanlang, who set off from home to sell his tea.
流傳台灣的三腳採茶戲，完全是以張三郎賣茶的故事為主軸，衍伸出各個小段的戲齣。三腳採茶戲的特色在於「三腳」，演員只有一丑二旦。