In the early 1940s, there was a legend about the "White-haired Fairy Girl" circulating in Fuping, Hebei Province: a daughter from a poor family was forced to work as a maid in the landlord's house, and was tortured in the landlord's house. She found an opportunity to escape from the landlord's house and hid in the mountains. Later, her hair turned white and she became the "White-haired Fairy Girl". She punished evil and promoted good, and her magic power was boundless. In 1945, the Northwest Field Service Corps brought the legend of the "White-haired Fairy" from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei front to Yan'an. At that time, Zhou Yang, the dean of Lu Xun Art Academy, heard about this story and immediately decided to create an opera based on it. Therefore, He Jingzhi and Ding Yi wrote the script, and Ma Ke, Li Huanzhi, Liu Chi and others served as composers. The five-act opera "White-Haired Girl" was collectively created by Yan'an Lu Xun Art Academy. In April 1945, the opera "The White-Haired Girl" held its first performance in the auditorium of the Yan'an Central Party School and received a warm welcome. Later, the main creator of the opera "The White-Haired Girl" revised the script and formed this plot: On New Year's Eve in 1935, Yang Bailao, a poor farmer in Yanggezhuang, Hebei Province, went out to avoid debts. After returning home, he was forced to death by landlord Huang Shiren, and his daughter Xi'er was robbed. To Huang's house. Xi'er's fiancé Wang Dachun beat up the loser Mu Renzhi and defected to the Eighth Route Army. When Xi'er was about to be sold, she got help from Second Aunt Zhang and fled to the mountains. She endured hardship for three years until her hair turned white. In the spring of 1938, Dachun's troops came to Yanggezhuang, Xi'er was rescued, and finally got revenge. In 1965, artists from the Shanghai Dance School created the ballet "The White-Haired Girl" based on the opera "The White-Haired Girl". Hu Rongrong, Fu Aidi, Cheng Daihui, Lin Yangyang, etc. served as choreographers, Yan Jinxuan and others composed the music, and Cai Guoying, Gu Xiamei, Mao Huifang , Shi Zhongqin, Ling Guiming and other starring roles. The ballet "The White-Haired Girl" retains the basic character relationships, dramatic conflicts, and most of the opera's arias and music in the opera "The White-Haired Girl", successfully condenses the plot, and makes extensive use of Chinese folk dance and classical dance movements to make the ballet "The White-Haired Girl" Combined with the art of ballet, it caused a sensation across the country and was deeply loved by the people once performed.
In November 1966, the "Central Cultural Revolution Group" held the "Capital Proletarian Cultural Revolution Conference in the Literary and Art Circles" in Beijing, and eight literary and artistic works including the ballet "The White-Haired Girl" were designated as "revolutionary models" play". Thanks to the actors' superb performances and strong political promotion, the ballet "The White-Haired Girl" quickly became popular all over the country and became a classic Chinese ballet. In 1979, the Shanghai Ballet was established based on the crew of the ballet "The White-Haired Girl". In 1972, Shanghai Film Studio produced a movie - the ballet "The White-Haired Girl", directed by Sang Hu; screenwriter: the crew of "The White-Haired Girl" of Shanghai Dance School; performance: Shanghai Dance School; soloist/Zhu Fengbo; main Actors: Mao Huifang (played as Xi'er) Shi Zhongqin (played as the white-haired girl) Ling Guiming (played as Wang Dachun), etc.