Is the predecessor of Huangmei Opera a local tune in Huangmei, Hubei?

1. The development history of Huangmei Opera in Anqing Huangmei Opera is the main local opera in Anhui Province. Huangmei Opera has professional or amateur performance groups in Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Taiwan Province and Hong Kong, which are widely welcomed. Huangmei Opera, formerly known as "Huangmei Tune", is a folk opera formed in Huangmei in the neighboring areas of Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces in the late 18th century. One of them gradually moved eastward to the intersection of Tongcheng and Anqing, Anhui Province, and combined with local folk art, singing and speaking in the local language, forming its own characteristics, known as "Huaiqiang" or "Huangmei Tune". This is the predecessor of Huangmei Opera today. The name "Huangmei Opera" was formally put forward for the first time in Susong County Annals published in the 1th year of the Republic of China (1921). The development history of Huangmei Opera can be roughly divided into three stages: the first stage, from Qing Qianlong to around the Revolution of 1911. Tea-picking tunes, Jiangxi tunes, Tongcheng tunes and Fengyang songs, which originated and spread to Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, were influenced by the performances of local operas (Qingyang tunes and Huizhou tunes) and combined with folk arts such as Lianxiang, stilts and dry boats, and gradually formed some small dramas. Further development, it absorbed the performance content and expression form from a folk art form called "Luohanzhuang" and Qingyang tune and emblem tune, thus producing the play with a complete story. There is also a transitional form from small play to this play, which is called "string play" by old artists. The so-called "string play" is a group of small plays that are independent and connected with each other, some of which are "string" by things, while others are "string" by people. The plot of "string play" is richer than that of small play, and the characters who appear have also broken through the three small ranges of clown, xiaodan and xiaosheng. Some of the older characters need to be played by Zheng Dan, Lao Sheng and Lao Ugly. This created conditions for the production of this play. The second stage is from the Revolution of 1911 to 1949. At this stage, Huangmei Opera gradually became professional, and stepped onto the urban stage from the rural grass platform. After Huangmei Opera entered Anqing City, it was combined with Beijing Opera, and was influenced by Yue Opera, Yang Opera, Huai Opera and Pingju Opera from the north in Shanghai, which changed a lot in both content and form. A number of new repertoires have been arranged and transplanted, including serial dramas such as Wen Suchen, Hong Bi Yuan, Gorgeous Yuan and The Tale of Bees. In the aspect of music, the traditional singing was reformed, which reduced the empty words in the old cavity, made it bright and smooth, and made the audience easy to understand the content of singing. Cancel the help, and try to accompany Hu Qin. In terms of performance, it absorbs and melts the procedural movements of Peking Opera and other brother operas, enriching the means of expression. Others, such as clothing, make-up and stage setting, have also developed compared with those in rural areas. The third stage is from 1949 to the present. In 1952, Huangmei Opera artists went to Shanghai to perform with such repertoires as "Beating Pig Grass" and "Blue Bridge Club". Over the past decades, a large number of actors have been trained. In addition to the older generation of artists such as Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang who have made outstanding achievements in the singing art of Huangmei Opera, young and middle-aged actors such as Malan and Han Zaifen have successively shown their heroic roles on the stage, on the screen and on the TV screen, attracting the attention of the audience. Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang co-starred in "A Fairy Match", which was made into a film twice and caused a sensation at home and abroad.