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What is the synopsis of the opera "The White-haired Girl"?

Yang Bailao, a sharecropper, lives with his daughter, Xi'er, who falls in love with Dachun, a young farmer from the same village. Yang Bailao borrows a loan from the evil landlord Huang Shiren and then goes out to escape from his debt. On New Year's Eve, Yang Bailao sneaks home.

When Huang Shiren hears of this, he forces Yang Bailao to sell his daughter to cover the debt, and Yang Bailao commits suicide by drinking the brine used to make bean curd (he is killed by Huang Shiren with a pistol during the ballet).

Xi'er was snatched into the Huang family, raped by Huang Shiren, and fled into the mountains, her hair all gray. Two years later, Dachun returned to his hometown with the Eighth Route Army and found Joy in a cave to redress her grievances. At the end, the villagers meet with Xi'er to criticize the Huang family's crimes and celebrate the poor people's return to the light of day.

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. p>Characterization of Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren:

Yang Bailao is a representative of the old generation of farmers, hardworking, loyal and kind. He is a tenant farmer of the landlord Huang Shiren, renting six acres of land of the Huang family, year after year owes the rent of the owner, the old can not pay off; borrowed money from the Huang family, but the donkey (refers to the usury) of the debt will never be able to pay off. Because he could not pay the rent and debts, Yang Bailao had to leave his home to avoid the debt when the New Year came.

Huang Shiren, a villainous character who appeared in the work of "The White-haired Girl" created by the collective of Lu Xun Art Institute in Yan'an, belongs to the villainous characters. Huang Shiren is a typical representative character of a bully landlord and old man, bullying men and women, loan-sharking, and doing no evil.

The image symbolizes the long-term oppression of the poor people by the feudal landlord class. This classic villainous image was first brought to the screen in the opera "The White Haired Girl", played by the famous actor Chen Qiang.