Traditional repertoire of Han Opera

There are more than 660 traditional repertoires of Han Opera, most of which are historical stories and folk legends, such as "Heroic Spirit", "Sacrificing the Wind Platform", "Li Mi Throwing himself into the Tang Dynasty", etc., and the performances of "Cosmic Fronts" and other dramas are most appreciated by people. Han opera also has a lot of miscellaneous cadences and a wealth of songs. The repertoires specializing in songs include The Great Gift of Blessing, Caochanghui, and Five Talents.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Han Opera artists responded to the call of the Chinese ****production party and actively participated in anti-Japanese salvation activities. Under the leadership of Guo Moruo, Tian Han, Hong Shen and others, ten Han opera mobile propaganda teams were organized, led by Fu Xinyi, Wu Tianbao, Zhou Tiantong and others, and went to perform in the rear areas of Chuan, Xiang, and western Hubei. In Chongqing, Chengdu and other performances in the area of the "Battle of the Interstate", "Jianghan fishing song", "Wen Tianxiang", "Yue Fei" and other plays, has been insisted on until the victory of the war. Fu Xinyi also opened in Chongqing Beibei Han opera training class, students graduated from the composition of the May 1 Han opera troupe, the Anti-Japanese War victory returned to Hubei was renamed the Huangshi Han opera troupe.

After the founding of the Chinese People's **** and the country, the Han Opera once again get the opportunity to flourish. In 1962, Wuhan established Wuhan Han Opera Theater, with Chen Bohua as the director and Wu Tianbao, Hu Guilin and Li Luoke as the vice directors, assuming the important task of researching and innovating Han Opera.In 1958, Hubei Opera Research Institute held a refresher course for Han Opera actors, and Hubei Provincial and Wuhan Municipal Opera Schools opened Han Opera Departments, concentrating the excellent teachers of each line to cultivate a group of A group of Han opera talents were trained by concentrating excellent teachers from all walks of life. A number of processed and organized traditional repertoires, such as "Cosmic Front", "Two Plums", "Broken Bridge", "Xinghan Tu", "Water Catching Pound", "Chopping Dou'e", "Returning to the Country in a Hurry", "Detailed Trial of Tao" and so on, have won awards or received good comments in the successive opera performances of the whole country and the province of Hubei. Among them, "Cosmic Front" was filmed as a black-and-white film by the Northeast Film Studio in 1954; "Two Plums" was filmed as a black-and-white film by the Wuhan Film Studio in 1959; the new historical drama "The King's Flag" was filmed as a color film by the Changchun Film Studio in 1978; the transplanted drama "Borrowing Cattle" was filmed as a color film by the Zhujiang Film Studio in 1966; "Judging Tao Da", "Panhe Bridge", The play "Sweeping Snow and Playing Bowls" was made into a documentary film.