On the occasion of the 50th birthday of Li Tingfu (Qian Miaohua), a senior official, guests and friends from all over the world came to celebrate his birthday. During the dinner, Wang Yulin (Chen Shaochun), the son of a good friend, is handsome and talented. Li Shangshu loved him so much that he married his daughter Li Xiuying (Jin Caifeng) a few days later. What a pair of fairies. They envy others, but they are lonely.
This is Xiuying's cousin Gu Wenyou (Wei). Gu was greedy for her cousin's appearance and couldn't get it, so under the arrangement of the matchmaker, she left a love letter with a hairpin on her wedding night in an attempt to break up Wang and Li's marriage. Yulin occasionally comes across letters, and after reading them, she concludes that Xiuying is a failed daughter.
After that, he refused to share a room with Xiuying and tried every means to divorce his wife. Poor Xiuying, a well-read young lady, has been greatly wronged.
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The Jade Hairpin is a traditional repertoire of Yue Opera. It was adapted from the Wu Opera "Three Heroes" according to the folk stories of Ma Chaoshui's "Li Xiuying Bao Juan" and "The Complete Biography of the Jade Hairpin" in the Qing Dynasty. Ashun artists Duo Zhi and Ma Chaoshui participated in the performance and premiered at Shanghai Kaiping Opera Troupe on July 20th.19/kl
Hosta Jade tells the story of marriage and reconciliation between Li Xiuying and Wang Yulin, focusing on the destruction of people by patriarchal clan system, and resisting the feudal oppression that lasted for thousands of years with an ancient and simple view of justice. After the script of Yue Opera "Jade Hairpin" matured, it was absorbed by many local operas, including Beijing Opera, and was adapted into black and white opera films for many times and shown in cinemas in Shanghai, Hong Kong and other cities.
From 1962, the color Cantonese opera film adapted by Wu Yonggang was released in Chinese mainland, and "Jade Hairpin" is still a classic repertoire of domestic Cantonese opera performance groups.