The birthplace and characteristics of Huangmei Opera

The birthplace of Huangmei Opera - Huangmei.

Huangmei Opera is one of the five most famous types of drama in my country. It originated from the folk songs of Huangmei County in the Ming Dynasty (especially the tea-picking tune) and the popular "folk song fan tune" in eastern Hubei. Ziyun, Longping, Duoyun and other mountainous areas in Huangmei County were rich in tea as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties and were well-known throughout the country. When picking tea every spring, tea farmers are used to singing folk songs and folk songs while picking tea to spice up their lives. It was amid the endless singing throughout the mountains and plains that the Huangmei tea-picking opera was conceived and matured.

In the process of its continuous development, Huangmei tea-picking opera actively expanded to other places. Around the Kangxi and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, Huangmei tea-picking opera spread to Poyang Lake in Anhui Province as a large number of refugees and storytellers from Huangmei County entered Jiangxi. area and formed a mature Huangmei Opera.