Qingyang Opera is a classical new opera. According to Tang Xianzu's "Records of the Temple of Qingyuan Master, the God of Opera in Yihuang County", "Yiyang, west of the Yangtze River, has drums and loud tunes. In the Jiajing period, it changed to Leping, Hui, and Qingyang." It originated in the Qingyang area of Anhui. During the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1619), Qingyang Opera was brought into northern Jiangxi by Hui merchants via land and water routes and took root in Duchang, Hukou, Xingzi, Pengze, and Ruichang. At the same time, it advanced from north to south and spread to Nanchang, Ji'an, Fuzhou, Ganzhou and other places. After Qingyang Opera entered Jiangxi, there were many troupes and it was deeply loved by urban and rural audiences in Jiangxi. At that time, the more famous troupes in Hukou, Duchang, and Pengze included the Hukou Xiulan Troupe established in the fourth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the Hukou Lao Xiulan Troupe established in the third year of Tongzhi, the Hukou Zhong Xiulan Troupe and Fu Xiulan Troupe established in the 30th year of Guangxu, the Caizi Troupe in Duchang in the seventh year of the Republic of China, and the Gaoqiang Kaitang Sitting Singing Troupe in Pengze in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China. The Qingyang Opera repertoire consists of southern opera, Ming legends and Yiyang Opera serial dramas. It can be divided into three parts: (1) The whole play part: including serial dramas such as "Three Kingdoms Opera", "Yue Fei Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Fengshen Opera", "Zhengdong Opera", "Zhengxi Opera" and "Mulian Opera". (2) The legendary play part: including the five major southern opera legends "Jingchai Ji", "Baitu Ji", "Waiyueting" and "Pipa Ji" and Ming legends "Wapen Ji", "Xianji Ji", "Taiqing Ji", "Shiyi Ji", "Golden Seal", "Hongmei Pavilion", "Dragon and Phoenix Sword", "Xiangqiu Ji", "Butterfly Dream", "Double Cup Ji" and "Three Jumps over the Stream". (3) The miscellaneous small plays part: including "Zhang San Borrows Boots", "Eighteen Talks", "The Drunken Concubine", "Three Fears of Wife", "The Painter Marries His Daughter", "Guanyin Sends a Child", "Lu Ban Congratulates the House" and "Great Blessing". In addition to the small dramas, more than 90% of these plays are recorded in "Yuanshantang Qupin", "Ci Lin Yizhi", "Ba Neng Zou Mian", "Yugu Diaohuang", "Zhaijin Qiyin", "Wanqu Changchun" and other books. Qingyang Opera music inherits the vocal characteristics of Yiyang Opera, such as "one singing and many people joining in", "its rhythm is drum, its tune is loud", "changing tune and singing", "no music score, just following local customs", and also belongs to the system of northern and southern operas, which is composed of the combination of tune sets and board changes. It makes full use of the important artistic means of "singing" in Qingyang Opera, "changing tune and singing", "misusing local dialect", and continuously develops on the basis of Yiyang Opera plus rolling, forming a unique "rolling tune". At the same time, it also draws nutrition from other operas and folk music while maintaining its own unique style, thus developing into Jiangxi Qingyang Opera music, which not only maintains the original style of the Ming Dynasty, with its quaint and strange style, graceful rhyme, and high and exciting tune, but also has a strong life atmosphere and local flavor in northern Jiangxi. Qingyang Opera actors have ten roles, namely, one male role (old male), two male roles (painted face), three male roles (bearded male), four female roles (green clothes), five ugly roles (small painted face), six male roles (secondary male), seven male roles (young male), eight female roles (flowered female), nine old roles (old female), and ten miscellaneous roles (second painted face). The percussion instruments used in Qingyang Opera accompaniment, singing and stage performance mainly include big gong, small gong, big cymbal, small cymbal, small dregs, horse gong, cloud gong, report drum, hall drum, big drum, etc. For hundreds of years, the ancient Qingyang Opera has been preserved in the vast rural areas of Hukou, Duchang, Pengze, Xingzi and Ruichang, and it was hidden deep. It was first discovered in 1955, named as Ganbei Gaoqiang in 1956, and the Duchang Gaoqiang Troupe was established in October 1957. In early June 1959, Qingyang Opera artists went to Beijing to give a report performance in the auditorium of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which aroused strong response and high evaluation from the capital's drama and music circles. In 1960, the Duchang Gaoqiang Opera Troupe was merged into the Jiangxi Gan Opera Theater, named "Gan Opera Qingyang Opera". In 1961, the famous classical drama "Romance of the West Chamber" composed in Qingyang Opera was highly appreciated by people at home and abroad. Famous writers such as Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Ai Siqi, and Xiong Fuxi wrote poems to commemorate it. A Hong Kong collector signed Zhenhan and wrote an inscription praising it: "Huizhen will turn it into the West Chamber, which is better than Guan Dongwang back then. When it comes to the sweetest part of the wedding, Yingying is now in Nanchang." Famous contemporary artists include Cao Meiqing, Cao Yuechun, Wu Houde, Cui Jintai, Li Bingzheng, Zou Xishou, Yin Wuhuan, etc. It was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.