What is Hubei Flower Drum Opera

Hubei Flower Drum Opera is one of the traditional opera styles in Hubei Province, and one of the most distinctive and influential performing arts in southern China. Flower Drum Opera is one kind of Han Chinese opera, mainly popular in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong and other places, with Hubei as the main performing area. The music of Hua Gu Opera is bright and cheerful, rich in flavor, and has profound cultural connotations in the form and content of the performance, which is known as the "Wuhan version of Journey to the West".

Flower Drum Opera is mainly characterized by the "lattice" stage, which has a unique performance style and art form. Actors wearing colorful costumes, holding flower drums, jumping and dancing, together with singing, recitation, percussion instruments, dance and other performance elements, showing deep feelings and rich connotations. The Flower Drum Opera focuses on characterization and storyline development during the performance, allowing the audience to think y while enjoying the performance.

As one of the important representatives of Hubei's culture, the Flower Drum Opera has been receiving attention and support from all sectors of the society in terms of inheritance and development. Now, the repertoire of flower-drum plays has been gradually enriched, presenting a high-quality and diversified artistic style, which has been loved and respected by the general audience. From ancient times to the present, Hubei Flower Drum Opera has ushered in one spring after another, and become a bright landscape in the treasure house of Chinese culture.