Huangmei Opera is the main local opera in Anhui Province. Most people are used to thinking that the birthplace of Huangmei Opera is Anhui, which is not accurate. Huangmei (county) belongs to Hubei, which is located at the junction of Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. More than a hundred years ago, Huangmei tune was popular here, also called "tea-picking drama". A tribe in this little play gradually moved eastward and became a climate in Anqing, Anhui Province, forming the later Huangmei Opera. In the early Huangmei Opera, most of the local folk songs were directly put on the stage to show the local life, especially the story of rural life. For example, "Beating Pig Grass" tells the story of a rural boy and a girl who have conflicts because of mowing grass and damaging crops, and resolve the conflicts through dialogue. Among them, "Lang is a flower, elder sister is a flower, and the next pair …" has always been a popular song. Another example is "Couples Watching Lights", which depicts the colorful life of the city through the experience of a young couple watching lights on the Lantern Festival. Soon, Huangmei Opera also made some achievements in moving and performing big plays. These plays are mainly influenced by Qingyang dialect and Huizhou tune, and the stories are complete, such as The Promise,

See: Han Bin. Huangmei opera Jilin Literature and History Publishing House, February 2006.

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