The representative repertoire, general content and opera characteristics of Henan Opera.

There are more than 1000 traditional plays of Henan Opera, a large part of which are based on historical novels and legends. Such as drama, Three Kingdoms, Wagang, Bao Gong, Yang Jiajiang, Yue Jia Jiang, and a large number of dramas describing marriage, love and ethics. After the founding of New China, many modern dramas and new historical dramas describing real life appeared, which further developed the cause of Henan Opera. Such as Chaoyanggou, Xiaoerhei's marriage, Happy Horse, Unfortunate Uncle's marriage, Trial Marriage Husband, Apple, Red, tearful Acacia and so on.

According to the statistics of 1956, there are 647 traditional plays. The most representative ones are Spring and Autumn Match, Firearms, Three-step Sedan, Cosmic Frontiers, Ditangban, Ladder Mouth, Beauty Case, Twelve Widows' Journey to the West, etc. Starting from 1949, we have arranged and adapted traditional plays, such as Matchmaker, Mulan, Mu Guai Shuai, Breaking the Flood State, Examining the Imperial edict of the Tang Magistrate, Playing Golden Branches, Three Crys Hall, etc. Modern dramas created and adapted include Chaoyanggou, Liu Hulan, Li Shuangshuang, People Joking, and many plays such as Disciple Rules, Arhat Money, Sister Xianglin, Five Girls and Red women soldiers. Among them, Mulan, Hua Da Chao, Mu Shuai, Van Gogh Palace, Luoyang Bridge, Seven Kinds of Sesame Officials, Qin Xianglian, Bao Qingtian, Chaoyanggou, Fast Horse and Wind and Snow Match have all been made into films.

2/kloc-in the 20th century, many new works appeared in Henan Opera, such as Red Plum under the Harvester, Chang Xiangyu, The Legend of the New White Snake, Li Tiancheng, the Village Official, Cheng Ying's Saving the Orphan, On the Breeze Hall, Soul Girl and so on.