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What are the classic plays in Guizhou Dong opera

There are more repertoires circulating in Dong opera, and the sources are wider. Pipa songs, folk stories and Han stories, which are widely circulated among the Dong people, are all materials for adapting Dong opera. The repertoire of Han Chinese opera is also often adapted and transplanted into Dong opera. The plays based on Dong folk tales include: "Zhulang Niangmei", "Liu Mei", "Jinjun and Niangrui", etc.; the plays based on Han stories include: "Chen Shimei", "Liangzhu Marriage", etc.; the historical story plays include: "Wu Mianwang", "Li Wandang", etc.; the plays transplanted to Han operas include: "The Card of Life and Death", "Fifteen Guan", "The White Hair

Women", etc.; the modern plays created include. Reunion", "Twenty Days", "A Pumpkin", "Yangwa", "Good Grandchildren" and so on. The storyline of these plays is more or less the same as that of other plays, but the basic structure and format are written according to the characteristics of Dong opera. The Dong opera is characterized by vivid phrases, strict rhymes, end rhymes, waist rhymes and chain rhymes, and a play is also a long narrative poem. Compared with other kinds of theater, Dong opera is unique in this regard.