The eight model operas are Peking Opera: Harbor, Shajiabang, The Tale of the Red Lanterns, Wise Men, and The Strange Attack on the White Tiger Regiment; Dance Opera: The White Hairy Girl and The Red Detachment of Women; and Symphonic Music: Shajiabang.?
For people in the 1950s and 1960s, the eight model operas are very familiar, because they were all made into movies, which were continuously and repeatedly screened in towns and people's communes across the country, and they have become very familiar with the characters, singing, lines, etc. As long as they are not mute, anyone will hum a piece of his or her favorite tune, and the Yang Zirong played by Mr. Tong Xiangling is so handsome, and the melody of "Fighting the Tiger! The melody of "Going up the Mountain" is too beautiful. Through the sea of forests, across the snowy plains, the air rushes to the sky, expresses the heroic feelings and sends a strong ambition, facing the mountains---? still lingers in the mind.
Eight model operas, is a product of the Cultural Revolution specific period, the author of this article honestly, although with the strong political colors of that era, is the old Peking Opera themes such as the talented, the emperor and the generals and so on, but it is to the people at that time a relatively lack of cultural life provides a valuable spiritual food.
In addition, it promoted the public's awareness of ballet, which led to the popularization and prosperity of Peking Opera, so much so that the ballets The White Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women have become the classics of world ballet today.
Eight sample plays, all word for word, a thousand hammer, not like the current film and television drama that crude, from a literary point of view alone, is absolutely the best of the best, can be said to be unprecedented and no one will come after the work.
Currently, with the development of the times, the early reopening of the very controversial and even by some cultural people to deny the eight model theater, with the passage of time, in turn, more and more show a very vigorous vitality, history is a continuation of the belief in China's specific period of time was born in the eight model theater, into the peak of the art of the incomparable.
Some people in the KTV are singing model opera, square dance melody in the play model opera in the wonderful singing, model opera almost become a regular guest of the annual Spring Festival Gala, which was welcomed by the people's popularity, in addition to the melody is beautiful, catchy, many people are nostalgic for the era of innocence.
Because the eight model operas, are some of the excellent literary works that urge people to be positive and encourage the spirit of the people, the whole influence of the Chinese generations, Tsui Hark filmed based on the red classic Peking Opera "Zhi Zhi Wei Hu Shan" adapted the feature film "Lin Hai Xue Yuan" on the domestic fans of the popularity of the film.