Anqing city is located in the southwest of Anhui province, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is a famous port city along the Yangtze River and has the reputation of "the first state of Wu and Chu in the Yangtze River". Anqing is the first city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Anhui section of the Yangtze River. It faces Chizhou City and Tongling City in Anhui Province across the river in the east, Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province in the south, Huangmei County, Qichun County and Yingshan County in Hubei Province in the west, and Lu 'an City and Chaohu City in Anhui Province in the north. Anqing is a national garden city, a national historical and cultural city and an excellent tourist city in China. (birthplace of Huangmei Opera)

According to the textual research of Mr. Linan Liao from the Local Records Office of susong county People's Government, Huangmei Opera originated from Huangmei tea-picking songs in the early Tang Dynasty, and gradually formed the embryonic form of folk opera through the development of folk songs in the Song Dynasty and the influence of zaju in the Yuan Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, a unique local opera had been formed. It is a melody art form sung by working people in susong county, Anqing City, Anhui Province and Huangmei County, Hubei Province in their long-term productive labor and social life. The two counties are adjacent, and the boundary line is very long, so many things are inseparable. Many times in history, two counties once belonged to the same administrative region. In the early days of the establishment of the * * * Production Party, the two counties also belonged to the same party branch. Mr. Linan Liao consulted the literature materials such as China Opera Annals, Huangmei County Annals and Susong County Annals, and found that Susong had more than a dozen firsts in the development history of Huangmei Opera.

For example: 1, the first special performance of Huangmei tea-picking drama. Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, Susong people have performed Huangmei tea-picking in Song Meiling Street on March 3rd every year. 2. He was the first person to write Huangmei Opera into the couplets of Liaohe Stage. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, local people wrote more than a dozen Huangmei opera scripts, such as "Sending Fragrant Tea" and "Sacrifice to the West Building", into couplets loved by the masses. 3. Be the first person with "official performance". Susong invited Huangmei Opera to perform in the official county town from Cao Ye in 1853, which was 8 1 year earlier than "Huangmei Opera entered Huangmei County in 1934" recorded in Huangmei County Records. 4. The first official name of the folk Huangmei tea-picking song was Huangmei Opera, and the name of Huangmei Opera was officially recorded in Susong County Records 192 1 version for the first time.

Huangmei opera is euphemistic and fresh, which can be divided into two categories: coloratura and Pingci. Coloratura is mainly used to perform small plays, full of rich flavor of life and folk songs, and uses "household society", "household lack" and other "interlining words". There are lovers watching lights, blue bridge meeting, and beating pig grass. Pingci is the most important aria in the original drama, which is often used for long narrative and lyric. It sounds euphemistic and melodious, including butterfly lovers and Fairy Couple. Modern Huangmei Opera enhances the expressive force of "Pingci" singing in music. Pingci is often used for lyric and narrative, and is the main singing of the original drama. It broke through the limitations of some "coloratura", absorbed the homophonic elements of folk songs and created a new cavity that was integrated with traditional singing. Huangmei Opera, with Gao Hu as the main accompaniment instrument, supplemented by other national musical instruments and gongs and drums, is suitable for performing plays with various themes. Yan Fengying is a famous actor in Huangmei Opera. He can really sing Huangmei Opera, and his masterpiece "A Fairy Match".

Huangmei Opera language is based on Anqing dialect and belongs to Jianghuai Mandarin. Its characteristics are as follows: the lyric structure of the whole drama is mostly seven words and cross-sentences. Seven-character sentences are mostly two, two and three structures, and cross sentences are mostly three, three and four structures. Sometimes seven-character and cross sentences can be used as the framework according to needs, and the number of words can be compressed or expanded, while the tunes mostly use overlapping sentences. The lyrics of coloratura opera are flexible and changeable, ranging from three to seven words, often mixed with various meaningless spoken words. The number of sentences is not necessarily even. Sometimes odd sentences are even when the last sentence is repeated. Singing methods are all sung in Anqing Mandarin, which is close to Mandarin. The vowels of the whole play are read and sung in Mandarin, and the short plays are sung in Anqing local dialect, and the vocals are still sung in Mandarin.