"Pig Weed" is a short play from Anqing Huangmei Opera.
Also a classic of Huangmei Opera, "Wrapping Pigs and Grass" tells the story of a rural boy and a girl who had a conflict due to the damage to the crops by weeding, and resolved the conflict through antiphonal singing. Among them, "The man is facing the flower, the sister is facing the flower, the couple are going to the field ridge?" has already become a popular song.
Chinese opera
It is a comprehensive stage art style with a long history. It is mainly composed of folk songs and dances, rap and comedy, and originated from primitive songs and dances. Its characteristic is that it aggregates many art forms into one standard and embodies their individuality in the same nature.
After long-term development, the Chinese Opera Baihua Garden has gradually formed with the five major opera types of "Peking Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Ping Opera, and Henan Opera" as the core. On April 29, 2021, the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education decided to establish the Chinese Opera Education Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education after research.
The first person to use the term opera in history was Liu Xun (1240-1319) of the Song Dynasty. He proposed "Yongjia Opera" in "The Biography of the Poet Wu Yongzhang". What he called "Yongjia Opera" is later generations The so-called "Southern Opera", "Xi Wen" and "Yongjia Zaju". Starting from Wang Guowei in modern times, "opera" was used as a general name for traditional Chinese drama culture.