Donghe Opera (the fourth batch of national-level) Donghe Opera originated in the Donghe River Basin of Gan County at the confluence of Zhang and Gong Rivers, the source of the Gan River in Jiangxi Province, hence the name. Around the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Yiyang Opera in northeastern Jiangxi spread to the rural areas of southern Jiangxi, and a class of singing Yiyang Opera Gaoqiang appeared. In the early Qing Dynasty, there was a Gaoqiang Yuhe class that mainly performed Yiyang Opera serial dramas. Zhang Shangyuan, the magistrate of Xingguo County in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, noted in his "Six-Word Poem": "The village people perform dramas, and those that are performed every ten or twelve days are big dramas." The big drama refers to this. In the eleventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou artists brought back by merchants from Gan County formed a family Kun Opera class, named Ningxiu Class. In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, the tourist Zhong Yuanxian watched "Handan Ji" in Ganzhou and wrote the poem "Guest House Invites Drinking and Watching Huangliang Opera" to narrate it. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Gaokun and Kun Opera classes were active in Gan County and Xingguo. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, the Yihuang Opera from the neighboring area and the Qin Opera and Bangzi Luantan Opera from the north began to be introduced into southern Jiangxi, followed by the Xipi Opera from Guangxi. Thus, a local opera that combined Gaoqiang, Kun Opera, Pihuang and Luantan Opera gradually matured and finally took shape. In the repertoire of Donghe Opera, Gaoqiang Opera has preserved 27 books of Yiyang Opera's continuous opera "Mulian Opera" and 46 books of single-act operas in the Ming Dynasty; Kun Opera scripts include five complete books such as "Double Bear Dream", with 80 single-act operas, and all marked with gongche music scores. There are 191 originals and 208 single-act operas in the Danqiang opera repertoire, most of which are dragon robe operas. The stage art of Donghe Opera is a collection of Gaoqiang, Kunqiang and Luantan operas. There are as many as 229 Gaoqiang and Kunqiang operas. The continuous opera is simple and vigorous, with a warm atmosphere, and maintains the characteristics of Yiyang Opera's gong and drum accompaniment and human voice. The traditional repertoire also has the euphemistic turns of Qingyang and Siping operas, with one singing and three sighs. Gaoqiang tunes, played with sheng and huang, are delicate and elegant, known as Gankun; Luantan tunes, with varied patterns and complex sounds, are comparable to Gaoqiang and Kunqiang. In terms of performance skills, the most exciting ones are the nail rake and long rope, the teeth turning eyes and the shape of the Eighteen Arhats in "Meeting Brothers at Wutai Mountain".