Abstract: There is an essential gap between martial arts and drama. Martial arts is a kind art of attacking and defensing, while drama is an art to tell stories with songs and dances. But the local operas of Anshun demonstrate numerous scenes with cultural phenomena of martial arts in opera performances and funeral ceremonies, the reason of which is that dramas need martial arts’ involvement to enrich their contents and forms on the one hand. On the other hand, the military outpost people, as a foreign military immigration form, have their own ethnic mentality and expressions. But more importantly, the funeral ceremony itself is the space in which dramas and survive and develop. Dramas are born in the funeral ceremonies and fused with martial arts in local dramas with their unique reasons and characteristics.

Key words: Anshun local dramas, martial arts culture, fete ceremony, ethnic mentality