Nanling has a long history and a flourishing humanities. It was inhabited by ancestors in the Stone Age. Since the county was established in the sixth year of the Common Era (525 AD) during the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasties, a large number of world-famous cultural landscapes and pleasing natural landscapes have been left for more than 1,400 years. Nanling Mulian Opera is recognized by the academic community as one of the main schools of Mulian Opera at home and abroad. According to the county annals, Wang Yangming, a theologian of the Ming Dynasty, and Jin Shengtan, a writer of the Qing Dynasty, came to Nanling to watch the performance of Mulian Opera. Wang Yangming commented: "The words are not as gorgeous as those in the West Chamber, but they are more filial and righteous than those in the West Chamber." This shows that the performance era is very old. According to the recollections of the teachers of the old folk artists in this county, in the Ming Dynasty, famous actors emerged in large numbers in the Qing Dynasty, and the troupes were invited to travel all over Jiangxi, Huitai and Jianghuai. The "Jiangnan Tongzhi" during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty recorded that "most of the actors in Mulian Opera were from Nanling." The script of Nanling Mulian Opera is "Mulian Saves His Mother", which has 3 books and 150 acts. The play uses 215 tunes. The whole play tells the story of Fu Xiang, who believed in Buddhism, saved orphans and the poor, and ascended to heaven after his death; his wife Liu started eating meat and destroyed Buddhism, beat monks and scolded Taoists, and was punished to suffer in hell; his son Fu Luobu refused to marry and became a monk, with the Buddhist name Mulian. In order to save his mother, he went to the tenth level of hell and finally redeemed his mother and achieved the right result. Because the play advocates courtesy, righteousness, benevolence, filial piety, cause and effect, and reverence for Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, the Mulian play must be performed in the folk sacrifice and vow-fulfilling ceremony in Nanling. Common people and Confucian scholars competed to sing and chant the Mulian play for fun. The play originated from the classic Buddhist story "Mulian Saves His Mother". After it was introduced into my country, it became a drama and spread to Japan and Southeast Asian countries, and its influence spread to Europe and the United States. Due to its long history, it involves ancient international cultural exchanges, ethics, local customs, culture and art, etc. Europe, the United States and Japan have set up special research institutions and frequent academic activities.