The eight model operas are: "Wisdom Takes the Tiger Mountain", "The Tale of the Red Lantern", "Shajiabang", "Harbor", "Attack on the White Tiger Regiment", the revolutionary modern dance drama "Red Detachment of Women", "The White-haired Girl", and the revolutionary symphonic music "Shajiabang".
The earliest batch of revolutionary model plays, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wit," "The Tale of the Red Lantern," "Shajiabang," "Attack on the White Tiger Regiment," "Seaport," "The Red Detachment of Women," "The White-haired Girl," and the symphonic music "Shajiabang," successfully portrayed a number of proletarian heroes such as Yang Zi Rong, Li Yuhua, Guo Jinguang, Hong Changqing, Yan Weicai, Fang Haizhen, and Xie'er, and revolutionized the old theatrical stage by The old theater stage was dominated by emperors and generals, talented men and women, and all kinds of reactionary characters or "middlemen", which turned history upside down and restored the face of history.
In Baidu's encyclopedia, model theater is defined as "model theater is the common name for the two dozen or so theater-based works of art during the Cultural Revolution period that were established as revolutionary models," and that there were more than two dozen plays in the repertoire.
In Wikipedia, "model theater" is defined as "a group of stage art works finalized during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and reflecting the political stance of the Chinese Communist Party, officially recognized by the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency during the period from 1967 to 1976". It also says that "the model plays were recognized several times". Regarding the number of model theater productions, Wikipedia says, "As of October 1976, there were about twenty-eight model theater productions." But it lists far more than twenty-eight, reaching more than thirty.