At this time, Xi'er's father, the old poor peasant Yang Bailao braved the wind and snow to rush home for the New Year, he bought a red head rope for his daughter, and happily tied it up for her, and the father and daughter **** dance, overflowing with the joyful atmosphere of the New Year and the sincere feelings between father and daughter. However, the landlord Huang Shiren with his housekeeper Mu Renzhi and his family suddenly broke in to force the debt. Yang Bailao is unable to repay the debt of Hades and is beaten to the ground by them and forced to put his handprints on the deed of sale of his daughter. Xie'er rises up to resist the attempt to capture her houseguests. Yang Bailao is furious and angry. He picks up his stick and beats Huang Shiren to the ground, but he is outnumbered and Yang Bailao is killed and dies with a grudge. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see him.
Dachun and the townspeople arrive at the news and rise up against the vicious houseguests. However, they were forced to take her away, and Dachun, enraged, raised his axe to fight with them. Uncle Zhao tries his best to dissuade him from doing so and directs him to join the Eighth Route Army. Xi'er, a maid in the Huang family, is severely beaten by Huang's mother. When the sinister Huang Shiren molests her, she refuses and hits him with an incense burner, thus doubling her humiliation and torture. Thereafter, with the help of a kind maid, Auntie Zhang, Joy escapes from the Huang family. When the guards chased her, they found a shoe by the river and thought she had jumped into the river to kill herself.
Xier came out of the reeds where she was hiding, and danced a resolute, sad solo dance, crying out "I'm not going to die, I want to live", and she made up her mind to take revenge on the landlord and the bullies. Wind and rain, winter and summer, the harsh life in the field, so that the hair from black to gray, from gray to white, and finally became completely white sideburns white-haired woman. In order to survive, she had to fight with wild animals and endure hunger and cold. However, she was strong and survived.
One day, when the extremely hungry Hei Er entered the Grandmother Temple to steal the fruit offerings, she coincidentally met the landlord Huang Shiren and the housekeeper Mu Renzhi. When the enemies met, Xier angrily smashed the incense burner on their heads. Huang and Mu were so scared that they thought it was an immortal nun manifesting her spirit and kowtowed more than once, and finally, they fled in panic. After joining the Eighth Route Army, Dachun grew up quickly in the midst of the war. One day, Dachun led an Eighth Route Army unit to capture a village, and was warmly welcomed by the villagers. 12 girls danced the beautiful and lyrical "Big Red Jujube Dance" to express their joy in celebrating liberation and their gratitude to their sons and daughters. Dachun also led the soldiers to dance in appreciation, the military and the people are one family, fish and water love.
After that, Dachun and the soldiers went into the mountains to search for the enemy, and came across Xie'er. After recognizing each other, they danced a double dance. Then, Dachun led Xier out of the mountain pass and returned to his hometown, where he had been away for many years, to reunite with his fellow villagers. The angry crowd captures Huang Shiren and Mu Renzhi, denouncing their heinous crimes of oppressing and preying on the people, and burns with their own hands the land deeds and deeds of sale that symbolize the feudal system, while the townspeople sing and dance to celebrate the liberation of the countryside. Joy takes the rifle from Dachun and joins the Eighth Route Army to fight for the defense of the victory and the liberation of the poor people. The White Hair Daughter" is a series of moving and legendary storylines based on the sadness and joy of Xier's fate, which profoundly expresses the basic contradiction between the peasants and the feudal landlords in the rural areas of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial Chinese society. Huang Shiren, the evil landlord, brutally oppresses the peasants through land rent and usury, forces Yang Bailao to die, snatches Xi'er and rapes her, then tries to harm her, and later forces her to flee into the mountains and live a "ghost" life. These episodes y expressed the miserable fate of the poor peasants who had long been subjected to heavy oppression and exploitation, and also powerfully exposed the ferocious, cunning, greedy and corrupt nature of the landlord class. In the end, the play depicts that under the leadership of the ****production party, the landlord class was defeated, and Xier and the peasants were avenged and liberated, and the old and new societies are in two worlds. The White-haired Girl profoundly reveals the theme that the old society forces people to become "ghosts" and the new society turns "ghosts" into people. This excellent opera has great typical significance.