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What is the approximate plot of the Yu opera "Wang Hua Buys Dad"? How many folds are there in the whole play***?

Yu Opera is the largest local opera in China, second only to Beijing Opera, ranking first among all local operas.

Yu opera, also known as Henan opera, Henan high tunes. It is also called "Henan Acura" because early actors sang with their own voices and used falsetto to turn the high end of their voices with "Acura" when they started and ended their voices. In the mountainous areas of western Henan, the performances are based on the mountains and the flat earth, locally known as "leaning on the mountain roar". Because Henan Province is short for "Yu", it was named Yu Opera after the liberation. It is one of the main types of theater in Henan Province.

Wang Hua Buying Dad, also known as Hui Long Zhuan, The Adventures of Eight Kings in Jiangnan, and Finding Children. It is one of the traditional plays of Yu opera. According to the statistics of 1956, there were 647 traditional repertoires. 

The more representative ones are The Pair of Flower Guns, Three on the Sedan Chair, Cosmic Peak, Ditang Board, Tikou, Guillotine Cases, Twelve Widows Conquering the West, and Spring and Autumn Match.

Wang Hua Buys His Father" originated from the folk legend "Wang Hua Buys His Father". It was originally adapted by Mr. Lu Shengkui, a veteran artist from Shandong, with a mixture of stories such as Wang Baochuan, and was later transplanted by the Yu Opera, which has various versions: Lv Opera, Qu Opera, Chuangzi, Yueju Opera, Shaoju Opera, etc. The play was originally written by Mr. Lu Shengkui, a veteran artist from Shandong.

The whole play*** has fourteen folds:

Folding 1: Wang Hua buys a father

Folding 2: Wang Hua enters the capital

Folding 3: King Baxian sits in the prison

Folding 4: Wang Hua ascends to the throne in the Great Hall

Folding 5: King Baxian swims in the lake and abandons his son, and Yang Tianguan is drunkenly driven away by a woman

Folding 6: Wang Hua invites a bride to marry him in Tianguan House, and the Eight Kings visit the son at Suzhou City. The seventh fold: King of Eight Wise Men sells his son on the street and young Wang Hua drunkenly buys his father

The eighth fold: King of Eight Wise Men stays in Wolongzhuang, and Mrs. Yang hopes to have her own son when she's sick

The ninth fold: Trial of filial piety: King of Eight Wise Men eats the royal banquet at every meal, and filial piety is promoted by the sale of Wang Hua's father on the street

The tenth fold: Wang Hua asks for the bill and enters Bianjing, the Minister of Military Affairs does the evil deed

The eleventh fold: Wang Hua is tortured in the trial of faithfulness and evilness. Torture: Wang Hua's second entry into Bianjing

Twelfth: Wang Hua's second entry into Bianjing was framed, saving his young master, Bao Gong, who was kidnapped by the thieves

Thirteenth: Liu Wenjin's attempt to take over the dynasty, and She Taijun's removal of the thieves from the Golden Palace

Fourteenth: Yang Xiuying's farewell to the Wolongzhuang, and little Wang Hua's ascension to the throne in the Golden Palace

Synopsis: During the years of the Song dynasty's four Emperors Renzong, the eighth king Zhao Defang and the Di Queen of the Suzhou Lake Tour, on the way back, the Di Queen gave birth to a miraculous fetus. On the way back, Queen Di gave birth to a strange fetus (meat egg), which the Eighth King threw into the Wei Shui River. The fetus was rescued by Mr. and Mrs. Wang Cai, who made a living as fishermen, and named Wang Hua (Wang Qitai). When Wang Hua was eight years old, his parents died and his family's property was seized by landlords, so he had to beg for food. Wang Hua eighteen years old, the scholar's daughter Yang Xiuying because of a verbal dispute with his father, was his father Yang Jifeng kicked out of the house and hard to the beggar Wang Huawei's wife, and since then to abide by the woman's way, fishing for a living, and gave birth to the Liang children, the column of children two sons. Although life is hard, the couple is very good. Banzai is seriously ill. The dynasty did not succeed the crown prince, the eight kings by the soothsayer instructions, south of the river to visit the son, pretending to be a crop old man, selling themselves, Wang Hua was fooled by the disguise of the search for the son of the eight virtuous king Zhao Defang bought home. Wang Hua was fooled into buying his son Zhao Defang in disguise. Wang Huawei exhausted his family's assets to support the eight princes, and sold Liang Zhu's two sons to the Heavenly Palace in order to organize a royal banquet. After a number of twists and turns, father and son finally recognize each other and reunite. Eighth King is concerned about the situation in the court, overnight to repair a letter to find the Secretary of the Ministry of War Liu Wenjin to borrow silver in the name of the difference between Wang Hua twice to move troops to the capital, so that Wang Hua into the capital to pass the decree to receive. However, he was persecuted by the treacherous minister Liu Wenjin, thanks to the rescue of the Secretary of the House of Liu semi-cheng. Eight wise king Wolonggang trapped, order Yang Xiuying into the capital to sell clothes, was Liu Wenjin nephew Suzhou governor escorted into the southern prison, Bao Zheng justice, and finally after a few setbacks, finally found the young master Wang Hua, Wang Hua ascended to the throne, the world amnesty.