地戏见诸于史料记载,最早应是明嘉靖年间的《徽州府志》记歙州一带迎汪公时“设俳优、狄、胡舞、假面之戏”。这里的“假面之戏”与安顺一带农村抬汪公时地戏队参与活动应是一脉相承。地戏的产生与延续离不开屯堡人。屯堡人保存了地戏,而地戏又增强了屯堡人的依托感和内聚力。屯堡人定居 To play in all the historical records, the earliest should be the years of Ming Jiajing “Huizhou Fu Zhi,” remember the state of Pizhou to welcome Wang Gong “set Yao, Di, Hu dance, masquerade ”. Here “mask of the play ” and Anshun area along the village to carry Wang Wang when the theater team to participate in activities should be the same strain. The emergence and continuation of the drama is inseparable from Tunpu people. Tunpu people to save the play, and play to enhance the reliance and cohesion of Tunpu people. Tunpu people to settle