Huangmei opera

In the late Qing dynasty, the songs were popular in Anhui Huaining County adjacent regions, combined with the local folk art, Anqing dialect with singing and chants, and gradually developed into a newborn's operas.

Today it is more of a traditional performance art with efforts of revival in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and mostly sung in Mandarin.

Generally accepted opinion is that the opera is from the greater Anqing area (junction of Anhui and Hubei and Jiangxi Province).

They reformed the traditional chants, reducing the function words to make the drama easy to understand with a lively rhythm.

It was during this year that the excellent artists Yan Fengying, Wang Shaofang and others gave performances in Shanghai for a big opera festival.

The big success evoked the passion of Huangmei opera artists and they created The Marriage of A Fairy Princess and Female Consort Prince which are classics.

The theme of Huangmei opera began to expand with its initial introduction in Hong Kong via the 1959 film The Kingdom and the Beauty (江山美人).

During this period, many Huangmei films were made, evolving into various forms and combinations, which later included wuxia sword fights.

Because the genre has such a heavy association with romance films like The Love Eterne, it is sometimes preferred that the singing be done with a male and a female pair.

An example is the cantopop artist Jenny Tseng singing Huangmei style music with Ivy Ling Po in a concert.

The flower cavity is mainly composed of small plays, the tone is healthy and simple, beautiful and cheerful, with a strong sense of life and the color of the folk songs; the color cavity is very popular, and it has been widely used in the small dramas; the main theme is the vocal used in the traditional Chinese drama of Huangmei opera.