Originally known as Huangmei Tune and Tea Casting Opera, it was developed on the basis of folk songs and dances mainly based on Huangmei Tea Casting Tune in the adjoining areas of Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces. One of them moved eastward to the Anqing area centered on Huai Ning, Anhui Province, and sang in the local voice, known as Huai Cavity or Huai Tune, which is the predecessor of today's Huangmei Opera.
It is one of the five major Chinese opera genres. Originating in the countryside at the junction of Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, Huangmei Opera originated from the same source as the tea-picking operas of eastern Hubei and northeastern Gan, and its original form was the tea-picking songs of the Huangmei area of Hubei. Before and after the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the Huangmei tea-picking tune, Jiangxi tune, Tongcheng tune and Fengyang tune, which were produced and circulated in the provinces of Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi, were influenced by the opera Qingyang accent and Hui tune, and were combined with the folk arts of Lianxiang, stilt walkers, and dry boaters to form a number of small operas gradually. After a period of development, and in the absorption of "Luohan pile", Qingyang cavity, Hui tune of the performance content and performance forms, based on the production of a complete story of the theater