What is the repertoire of Cantonese Opera?

Cantonese Opera has undergone significant changes in terms of repertoire content and performance art, with new repertoire reflecting real life emerging continuously. New plays reflecting real life continued to emerge, such as "Liang Tianlai's Complaint", "Wang Daju's Confession", and "Egg Family Sister's Selling Horseshoes", which appeared one after another. At the same time, the actors and actresses in the official language of the theater studio, adding the Guangzhou dialect singing.

The repertoire of Cantonese opera is very large, and the early traditional plays, the eighteen books of Jianghu, are all the "pioneer plays" of the early actors.

Towards the end of the 1860s, there were the so-called "eighteen books of the big rows", i.e., "The Cold Palace Takes a Laugh", "The Three Maidens Teach Their Children", "Three Trips to the Southern Tang Dynasty", "Shatuo Borrows Soldiers", "Wulang Rescues His Brother", "Sixth Lang Sins Against His Son", "Four Langs Visits Their Mothers", "Playing with the Phoenix in the Tavern", "Playing Hole in a Cave to Join Husbands", "Playing with Wild Geese in Search of Their Father", "Pinggui Returning to His Father's Kiln

Later, there were "eighteen books of the new Jianghu": "Re-glory", "Double Kingdom", "Move Heaven", "Green Stone Ridge", "Giving Pa Rim", "Trapped in Youzhou", "Seven Countries", "Chivalrous Dual Blossoms", "Nine Dragons Mountain", "Against Heavenly Lunar", "Peace for Nobility", "Haunted Yangzhou", "Double Knot", "Snowing Injustice", "Dragon Tigers", "West River Club", "The Dragon Tigers", "The West River Club", "The Dragon Tigers" and "The West River Club", Dragon and Tiger," "West River Meeting," "Golden Leaf Chrysanthemum," and "Yellow Flower Mountain.

In the early 1890s, there were "Cantonese opera quiet plays" that emphasized singing, such as "Shilin Sacrifices the Pagoda," "Daiyu Burial of Flowers," and "Suwu Shepherds Sheep," also known as the "Eighteen Books of the Great Platoon.

Inheriting the famous repertoire of folklore, Peking Opera and Kun Opera, together with the repertoire created by Tang Tesheng, the famous Cantonese Opera is very rich. For example, "The Emperor's Daughter's Flower", "The Tale of the Purple Hairpin", "The Peony Pavilion's Surprising Dream", "The Pavilion of the Two Immortals Worshipping the Moon", "The Story of the Red Plum in the Second Life", "The Story of the Butterfly Shadow of the Red Pear", "The Eight Happinesses of the Field of Flowers", "Xiangluo Graveyard", "The Cherry is Red and Shattered", "The Redness of Blood Staining the Begonia", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Marriage of the Three Laughing Marriages", "The Meeting of the White Rabbits", "The Tale of Gui Zhi", "Dou'e Grievance", as well as "The Passage of Books by Liou Yi" which is a legendary novel of the Tang Dynasty and "Drunkenness Playing the Golden Bough", a famous traditional piece of Jin Opera. traditional works "Drunkenness and the Golden Bough", "Qin Xianglian" and "The Mirror's Edge" and "Madame Flower Rui" from the novels of Gods and Demons, as well as the famous "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".