The origin of Yueju Opera?

Vietnamese Opera, the predecessor of Yueju Opera, was popularized in Sheng County, Zhejiang Province, and gradually developed into the "Women's Shaoxing Literary Opera" in the 1930's. In the early 1940's, the women's Yueju Opera flourished in Shanghai and gradually matured.

Ladies' Yueju Opera flourished in Shanghai in the early 1940s, and gradually matured, drawing on the nourishment of Kun Opera and drama. The old generation of artists represented by Yuan Xuefen and Yin Guifang were cared for by the Communist Party of China (CPC) at an early stage, and carried out bold reforms in the system and art, and the performance of the new Yueju opera "Sisterhood of the Xianglin Sisterhood" was a milestone in the history of the development of Yueju opera. It was the courageous reform and positive innovation of this group of veteran artists who, on the basis of inheriting the tradition and in accordance with their own conditions, drew on the strengths of the audience to create their own unique styles, and gradually formed a school of Yueju Opera with its own artistic characteristics.

Since the founding of New China, under the guidance of the Party's literary policy, Yueju Opera has entered into a golden period of great development, and created a large number of excellent plays such as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Dream of the Red Mansion, and The Story of the Western Chamber.

In the mid-eighties, Zhejiang Little Hundred Flowers Yueju Opera Troupe was set up in Hangzhou, and the remarkable phenomenon of "Little Hundred Flowers" emerged in Zhejiang. A large number of outstanding "Little Hundred Flowers" like a spring out of the rain. For example, Mao Weitao, winner of the "Second Plum Blossom Award", Zhou Yunjuan, winner of the Plum Blossom Award, Wu Fenghua, etc., who represent a new generation of Yueju Opera artists, blossomed in the Hundred Flowers Garden, heralding the further prosperity and development of the cause of Yueju Opera.