Huangmei Opera was originally called Huangmei Tune and Tea Picking Opera. It is mainly spread in the vast southwestern areas of Anhui Province. In the late Qing Dynasty, Huangmei Tune was combined with folk art in Huaining County, Anqing City and other regions, and sung and recited in Anqing dialect, gradually developing into a new opera genre, which was called Huaiqiang or "Anhui Opera" at the time. This was the early Huangmei Opera. Later, Huangmei Opera borrowed and absorbed the music, performances and repertoires of Qingyangqiang and Huiqiang, and began to perform "original opera". Later, with Anqing as the center, after more than a hundred years of development, Huangmei Opera became the main local opera genre in Anhui and one of the five major opera genres in China, with a far-reaching influence. The singing style of Huangmei Opera belongs to the board-style variation, with three major tune systems: flowery tune, colorful tune and main tune. Flower-tone is mainly used for small plays, and its tunes are healthy and simple, beautiful and cheerful, with a strong flavor of life and the color of folk songs; the tunes of color-tone are cheerful and have been widely used in flower-tone small plays; the main tune is the singing tune commonly used in the traditional Huangmei Opera, which is divided into Pingci, Huogong, Erxing and Sanxing. Among them, Pingci is the most important singing tune in the original play, and the tune is solemn and beautiful. Huangmei Opera is known for its lyricism, rich charm, simple and fresh singing, delicate and moving, rich expressiveness, and easy to understand and popularize, and is deeply loved by people from all over the country. In terms of musical accompaniment, in the early Huangmei Opera, three people played percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals, small gongs, and large gongs, and participated in the chorus at the same time, which was known as "three beats and seven sings". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huangmei Opera formally established an accompaniment system with Gaohu as the main instrument. The role system of Huangmei Opera was developed on the basis of "two small plays" and "three small plays", including Zhengdan, Zhengsheng, Xiaodan, Xiaosheng, Huadan, Qiaochou, Laodan, Laosheng, Hualian, Daomadan, Wuerhua and other roles. Although there is a division of labor, there is no strict restriction, and actors can often play other roles. Huangmei Opera's performances are full of singing and dancing, simple and meticulous, real and lively, full of life, known for advocating emotional experience, and have a fresh, natural, beautiful and smooth artistic style. There are many well-known excellent repertoires in Huangmei Opera, and the most representative ones are "The Fairy and the Fairy", "The Female Prince Consort", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", "The Couple Watching Lanterns", "Picking Pig Grass", and "Spinning Cotton Yarn".